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title: Why would a pale adult flamingo in a zoo be a sign that something is… — Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare b… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why would a pale adult flamingo in a zoo be a sign that something is wrong? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 367 «Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 2 · ★ · Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white a…

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Why would a pale adult flamingo in a zoo be a sign that something is wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** pale adult flamingo, something · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** sign

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 367 «Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers» 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/367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers:t2:1
# text = Why would a pale adult flamingo in a zoo be a sign that something is wrong?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	flamingo	flamingo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would | a pale adult flamingo in a zoo | a sign |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | something | a sign *not said here* |  |  |  | wrong *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 {#o1}

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It has been in the sun too long

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers:t2:o1:1
# text = It has been in the sun too long
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect | It |  |  | the sun |  | long *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It is about to turn into a swan, like the ugly duckling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers:t2:o2:1
# text = It is about to turn into a swan, like the ugly duckling
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	duckling	duckling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | a swan |  | like the ugly duckling | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into swan=Trajectory |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Its food is probably missing the pink pigment

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers:t2:o3:1
# text = Its food is probably missing the pink pigment
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	missing	miss	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pigment	pigment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **miss** | present · progressive | Its food | the pink pigment |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pigment=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It is getting too old to fly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers:t2:o4:1
# text = It is getting too old to fly
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present · progressive | It |  |  |  |  | old *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **fly** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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