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title: «hiker's sandwich got nicked by a green parrot in the mountains lol»… — Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long… · tree and pragmatics
description: «hiker's sandwich got nicked by a green parrot in the mountains lol» Which bird was it most likely? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 206 «Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 7 · ★ · Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives

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«hiker's sandwich got nicked by a green parrot in the mountains lol» Which bird was it most likely?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** green parrot, bird · **What happens:** nick, be · **To what, where:** sandwich

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 206 «Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives» 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/206-parrots-talkers-nutcrackers-and-long-lives/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:206-parrots-talkers-nutcrackers-and-long-lives:t7:1
# text = «hiker's sandwich got nicked by a green parrot in the mountains lol» Which bird was it most likely?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	hiker	hiker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	nicked	nick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	17	det	_	_
17	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nick** *in a quote* | past · passive | a green parrot in the mountains | hiker's sandwich |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | which bird |  |  |  |  | likely *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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A kea in New Zealand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:206-parrots-talkers-nutcrackers-and-long-lives:t7:o1:1
# text = A kea in New Zealand
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kea	kea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
5	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A penguin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:206-parrots-talkers-nutcrackers-and-long-lives:t7:o2:1
# text = A penguin
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	penguin	penguin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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An African grey in a forest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:206-parrots-talkers-nutcrackers-and-long-lives:t7:o3:1
# text = An African grey in a forest
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	grey	grey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A cockatoo at a clay lick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:206-parrots-talkers-nutcrackers-and-long-lives:t7:o4:1
# text = A cockatoo at a clay lick
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cockatoo	cockatoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	lick	lick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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