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title: «crap, a kea's nicking the wiper off the car!» Why do keas do this? — Animals of Australia and New Zealand:… · tree and pragmatics
description: «crap, a kea's nicking the wiper off the car!» Why do keas do this? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 7 · ★★ · Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, w…

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«crap, a kea's nicking the wiper off the car!» Why do keas do this?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** crap, keas · **What happens:** nick, do · **To what, where:** wiper, car, this

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis» 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/79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «crap, a kea's nicking the wiper off the car!»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand:t7:1
# text = «crap, a kea's nicking the wiper off the car!»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	crap	crap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	kea	kea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	nicking	nick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wiper	wiper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nick** *in a quote* | gerund | crap *not said here* | the wiper |  | the car |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wiper=Theme off car=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Why do keas do this?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand:t7:2
# text = Why do keas do this?
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	keas	kea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · do-support | keas | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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They hate cars and attack them to drive them out of the mountains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand:t7:o1:1
# text = They hate cars and attack them to drive them out of the mountains
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hate	hate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	attack	attack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | present | They | cars |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus |
| 2 | **attack** | infinitive | They *not said here* | cars *= car* |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **drive** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* | cars *= car* |  | the mountains |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme out mountain=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They are hungry and eat rubber

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand:t7:o2:1
# text = They are hungry and eat rubber
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | They |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | present | They *not said here* | rubber |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubber=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Someone trained them to steal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand:t7:o3:1
# text = Someone trained them to steal
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	trained	train	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **train** | past | Someone | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **steal** | to-infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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They are very clever and curious and try out everything they find

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand:t7:o4:1
# text = They are very clever and curious and try out everything they find
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	8	obj	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | They |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **try out** | infinitive | They *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | present | they |  |  |  |  |  | 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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