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title: Why do rangers remove rats and stoats from kakapo islands? — Conservation: how people help animals… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do rangers remove rats and stoats from kakapo islands? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 78 «Conservation: how people help animals come back» 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 right.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Conservation: how people help animals come back

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Why do rangers remove rats and stoats from kakapo islands?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** rangers · **What happens:** remove · **To what, where:** rats, kakapo islands

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 78 «Conservation: how people help animals come back» 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/78-conservation-animals-come-back/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:78-conservation-animals-come-back:t8:1
# text = Why do rangers remove rats and stoats from kakapo islands?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	rangers	ranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	remove	remove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	stoats	stoat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	kakapo	kakapo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remove** | present · do-support | rangers | rats and stoats |  | kakapo islands |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rat=Theme from island=Source |

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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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Rats steal kakapo food from trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:78-conservation-animals-come-back:t8:o1:1
# text = Rats steal kakapo food from trees
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	steal	steal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	kakapo	kakapo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | present | Rats | kakapo food |  | trees |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from tree=Source |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Stoats sing too loudly at night and keep the kakapos awake until dawn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:78-conservation-animals-come-back:t8:o2:1
# text = Stoats sing too loudly at night and keep the kakapos awake until dawn
1	Stoats	stoat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	kakapos	kakapo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
12	until	until	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | Stoats |  |  |  | night | loudly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | Stoats *not said here* | the kakapos |  |  | dawn |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kakapo=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Kakapos nest on the ground, so these predators eat eggs and chicks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:78-conservation-animals-come-back:t8:o3:1
# text = Kakapos nest on the ground, so these predators eat eggs and chicks
1	Kakapos	kakapo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	nest	nest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	predators	predator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	chicks	chick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nest** | present | Kakapos |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **eat** | present | this predators | eggs and chicks |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Rats and stoats are endangered and need moving

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:78-conservation-animals-come-back:t8:o4:1
# text = Rats and stoats are endangered and need moving
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	stoats	stoat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	endangered	endangered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Rats and stoats |  |  |  |  | endangered *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** | present | Rats and stoats *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **move** *not said to happen* | gerund | Rats and stoats *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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