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title: What would happen if a budgie flew around a room with an uncovered b… — Budgies and canaries · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a budgie flew around a room with an uncovered big window? Test 8 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Budgies and canaries

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What would happen if a budgie flew around a room with an uncovered big window?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** budgie · **What happens:** happen, fly, uncover · **To what, where:** room

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:205-budgies-and-canaries:t8:1
# text = What would happen if a budgie flew around a room with an uncovered big window?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	budgie	budgie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	around	around	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	uncovered	uncover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a budgie |  |  | a room |  | with a uncovered big window | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around room=Location |
| 3 | **uncover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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It would never fly near it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:205-budgies-and-canaries:t8:o1:1
# text = It would never fly near it
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fly** | would | It |  |  | it |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near it=Location |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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It would fly through the glass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:205-budgies-and-canaries:t8:o2:1
# text = It would fly through the glass
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | would | It |  |  | the glass |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through glass=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would stop at the glass perfectly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:205-budgies-and-canaries:t8:o3:1
# text = It would stop at the glass perfectly
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | It |  |  | the glass |  | perfectly *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at glass=Location |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It might fly into the glass and get hurt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:205-budgies-and-canaries:t8:o4:1
# text = It might fly into the glass and get hurt
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | might | It |  |  |  |  | into the glass *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into glass=Result |
| 2 | **hurt** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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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