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title: «my nan says storks never nest by a house of quarrels lol» What is t… — White storks: Ukraine's favourite bird… · tree and pragmatics
description: «my nan says storks never nest by a house of quarrels lol» What is this? Test 5 of lesson 375 «White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 5 · White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey…

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«my nan says storks never nest by a house of quarrels lol» What is this?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nan, storks, this · **What happens:** say, not nest, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 of lesson 375 «White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa» 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/375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa:t5:1
# text = «my nan says storks never nest by a house of quarrels lol» What is this?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	nan	nan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	nest	nest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	quarrels	quarrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
15	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	parataxis	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
17	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | my nan |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **nest** *in a quote* | present | storks |  |  |  |  | by a house of quarrels | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | this |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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A scientific fact about storks that was proved long ago

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa:t5:o1:1
# text = A scientific fact about storks that was proved long ago
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	scientific	scientific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	proved	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
9	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | past · passive |  | a scientific fact about storks |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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A law in Ukraine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa:t5:o2:1
# text = A law in Ukraine
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A rule storks learn at school

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa:t5:o3:1
# text = A rule storks learn at school
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | present | a rule storks |  |  | school |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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An old saying people tell, not something proved

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa:t5:o4:1
# text = An old saying people tell, not something proved
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	saying	saying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	conj	_	_
9	proved	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | people | a old saying *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent saying=Recipient |
| 2 | **prove** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

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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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