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title: «keep the cage in the kitchen so he's got company while we cook» Wha… — Budgies and canaries · tree and pragmatics
description: «keep the cage in the kitchen so he's got company while we cook» What is wrong with this? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 205 «Budgies and canaries» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Budgies and canaries

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«keep the cage in the kitchen so he's got company while we cook» What is wrong with this?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, he, we · **What happens:** keep, get, cook, be · **To what, where:** cage, kitchen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 205 «Budgies and canaries» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:205-budgies-and-canaries:t4:1
# text = «keep the cage in the kitchen so he's got company while we cook» What is wrong with this?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	amod	_	_
12	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	cook	cook	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
17	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | the cage |  | the kitchen |  | got company *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | present · passive | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **cook** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | with this; wrong *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Birds hate company

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:205-budgies-and-canaries:t4:o1:1
# text = Birds hate company
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hate	hate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | present | Birds | company |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer company=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing at all is wrong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:205-budgies-and-canaries:t4:o2:1
# text = Nothing at all is wrong
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Cooking fumes and smoke can harm or even kill small birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:205-budgies-and-canaries:t4:o3:1
# text = Cooking fumes and smoke can harm or even kill small birds
1	Cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	fumes	fume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **harm** | can | Cooking fumes and smoke |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **kill** | infinitive | Cooking fumes and smoke *not said here* | small birds |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Birds get too fat in kitchens from all the crumbs they are given

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:205-budgies-and-canaries:t4:o4:1
# text = Birds get too fat in kitchens from all the crumbs they are given
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	kitchens	kitchen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Birds |  |  | kitchens |  | from all crumbs; fat *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from crumb=Destination |
| 2 | **give** | present · passive |  | Birds *= bird* |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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