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title: A barn swallow ringed in a Devon barn is found in South Africa in wi… — Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight · tree and pragmatics
description: A barn swallow ringed in a Devon barn is found in South Africa in winter. What does this show? Test 10 of lesson 33 «Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight» 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 
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# Test 10 · Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight

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A barn swallow ringed in a Devon barn is found in South Africa in winter. What does this show?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** this · **What happens:** ring, find, show · **To what, where:** barn swallow, Devon barn, South Africa

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This is test 10 of lesson 33 «Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight» 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/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A barn swallow ringed in a Devon barn is found in South Africa in winter.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight:t10:1
# text = A barn swallow ringed in a Devon barn is found in South Africa in winter.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	ringed	ring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Devon	Devon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring** | participle |  | a barn swallow *not said here* |  | a Devon barn |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in barn=Location |
| 2 | **find** | present · passive |  | a barn swallow |  | South Africa | winter |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What does this show?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight:t10:2
# text = What does this show?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · do-support | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Swallows migrate thousands of kilometres for winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight:t10:o1:1
# text = Swallows migrate thousands of kilometres for winter
1	Swallows	swallow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	migrate	migrate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **migrate** | present | Swallows | thousands of kilometres |  |  | winter |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Swallows live in Africa all year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight:t10:o2:1
# text = Swallows live in Africa all year
1	Swallows	swallow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Swallows |  |  | Africa | year |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in africa=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Someone carried it there by plane

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight:t10:o3:1
# text = Someone carried it there by plane
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	plane	plane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | Someone | it |  | there |  | by plane | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It was blown off course in a big storm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight:t10:o4:1
# text = It was blown off course in a big storm
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow off** | past · passive |  | It |  | a big storm |  | off course | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary course=Product |

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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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