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title: A falconer's Harris's hawk lands on her glove. Why is the glove thic… — Birds of prey and owls · tree and pragmatics
description: A falconer's Harris's hawk lands on her glove. Why is the glove thick leather? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 34 «Birds of prey and owls» 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 9 · ★ · Birds of prey and owls

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A falconer's Harris's hawk lands on her glove. Why is the glove thick leather?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hawk, glove · **What happens:** land, be · **To what, where:** glove

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 34 «Birds of prey and owls» 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/34-birds-of-prey-and-owls/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A falconer's Harris's hawk lands on her glove.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:34-birds-of-prey-and-owls:t9:1
# text = A falconer's Harris's hawk lands on her glove.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	falconer	falconer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Harris	Harris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lands	land	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	glove	glove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | present | a falconer's hawk |  |  | hawk's glove |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on glove=Destination |

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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:* Why is the glove thick leather?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:34-birds-of-prey-and-owls:t9:2
# text = Why is the glove thick leather?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	glove	glove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the glove and thick leather |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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To keep the hawk warm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:34-birds-of-prey-and-owls:t9:o1:1
# text = To keep the hawk warm
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | the hawk |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hawk=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To make the hawk look bigger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:34-birds-of-prey-and-owls:t9:o2:1
# text = To make the hawk look bigger
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | the hawk |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive | the hawk *not said here* |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Because hawks like the smell of leather

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:34-birds-of-prey-and-owls:t9:o3:1
# text = Because hawks like the smell of leather
1	Because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	2	case	_	_
2	hawks	hawk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** |  | leather |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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

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To protect her hand from the hawk's sharp talons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:34-birds-of-prey-and-owls:t9:o4:1
# text = To protect her hand from the hawk's sharp talons
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	protect	protect	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	talons	talon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **protect** | to-infinitive |  | her hand |  |  |  | from the hawk's sharp talons | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Beneficiary from talon=Theme |

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