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title: A reed warbler's eggs are pushed out of its own nest. Who did it? — Birds of every kind: penguins, ostrich… · tree and pragmatics
description: A reed warbler's eggs are pushed out of its own nest. Who did it? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 35 «Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, hummingbirds, songbirds, crows» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, humming…

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A reed warbler's eggs are pushed out of its own nest. Who did it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** push out, do · **To what, where:** eggs, own nest, nest

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 35 «Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, hummingbirds, songbirds, crows» 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/35-birds-of-every-kind/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A reed warbler's eggs are pushed out of its own nest.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:35-birds-of-every-kind:t9:1
# text = A reed warbler's eggs are pushed out of its own nest.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	reed	reed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	warbler	warbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push out** | present · passive |  | a reed warbler's eggs |  | warbler's own nest |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme nest=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:* Who did it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:35-birds-of-every-kind:t9:2
# text = Who did it?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	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	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | nest |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A woodpecker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:35-birds-of-every-kind:t9:o1:1
# text = A woodpecker
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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The newly hatched cuckoo chick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:35-birds-of-every-kind:t9:o2:1
# text = The newly hatched cuckoo chick
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	hatched	hatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	chick	chick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hatch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The reed warbler itself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:35-birds-of-every-kind:t9:o3:1
# text = The reed warbler itself
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	reed	reed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	warbler	warbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:35-birds-of-every-kind:t9:o4:1
# text = The wind
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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