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title: What would happen if a nest box had a very big hole? — Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a nest box had a very big hole? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 216 «Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders» 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 7 · ★ · Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders

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What would happen if a nest box had a very big hole?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nest box · **What happens:** happen, have · **To what, where:** big hole

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 216 «Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders» 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/216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders:t7:1
# text = What would happen if a nest box had a very big hole?
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	_	8	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	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 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a nest box | a big hole |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient |

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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 {#o1}

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The chicks would hatch faster in the fresh air

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders:t7:o1:1
# text = The chicks would hatch faster in the fresh air
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chicks	chick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	hatch	hatch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hatch** | would | the chicks |  |  | the fresh air |  | fast *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Bigger birds could get in and take the eggs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders:t7:o2:1
# text = Bigger birds could get in and take the eggs
1	Bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get in** | could | Bigger birds |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | Bigger birds *not said here* | the eggs |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No bird could ever get in or out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders:t7:o3:1
# text = No bird could ever get in or out
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | could | no bird |  |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would keep the box drier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders:t7:o4:1
# text = It would keep the box drier
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	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	drier	drier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | would | It | the box drier |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drier=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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