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title: ugh crows screaming their heads off at that tree, what's their problem — How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry · tree and pragmatics
description: ugh crows screaming their heads off at that tree, what's their problem Test 8 of lesson 51 «How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry» 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 8 · How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry

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ugh crows screaming their heads off at that tree, what's their problem

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ugh crows · **What happens:** scream off, be · **To what, where:** heads, tree, problem

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This is test 8 of lesson 51 «How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry» 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/51-how-animals-hide/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:51-how-animals-hide:t8:1
# text = ugh crows screaming their heads off at that tree, what's their problem
1	ugh	ugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	screaming	scream	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scream off** *speech: express* | gerund | ugh crows and heads's problem *not said here* | crows's heads |  | that tree |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | heads's problem |  |  |  |  | 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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They're warning each other about the rain coming in

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:51-how-animals-hide:t8:o1:1
# text = They're warning each other about the rain coming in
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	warning	warn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	3	obj	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	fixed	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
10	in	in	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present · progressive | They | each |  |  |  | about the rain | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent each=Recipient about rain=Topic |
| 2 | **come in** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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They've probably found a sleeping owl and are mobbing it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:51-how-animals-hide:t8:o2:1
# text = They've probably found a sleeping owl and are mobbing it
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	mobbing	mob	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present · perfect | They | a sleeping owl |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owl=Topic |
| 2 | **mob** | present · progressive | They *not said here* | owl |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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They're building a nest together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:51-how-animals-hide:t8:o3:1
# text = They're building a nest together
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	building	build	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | present · progressive | They | a nest |  |  |  | together *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They're fighting over a worm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:51-how-animals-hide:t8:o4:1
# text = They're fighting over a worm
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | present · progressive | They |  |  |  |  | over a worm | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent over worm=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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