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title: why we gotta shut the chooks in at night, they're fine — Chickens, goats and little creatures · tree and pragmatics
description: why we gotta shut the chooks in at night, they're fine Test 10 · ★ of lesson 68 «Chickens, goats and little creatures» of the everyday 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 10 · ★ · Chickens, goats and little creatures

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why we gotta shut the chooks in at night, they're fine

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** we, chooks · **What happens:** gotta, shut in, be · **To what, where:** chooks

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 68 «Chickens, goats and little creatures» of the everyday 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/everyday/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:t10:1
# text = why we gotta shut the chooks in at night, they're fine
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gotta	gotta	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	shut	shut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chooks	chook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gotta** | past | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shut in** | infinitive | we *not said here* | the chooks |  |  | night |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent chook=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | chooks *= chook* |  |  |  |  | fine *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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Foxes and other animals attack them in the dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:t10:o1:1
# text = Foxes and other animals attack them in the dark
1	Foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	attack	attack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attack** | present | Foxes and other animals | animals *= animal* |  | the dark |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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So they lay their eggs only at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:t10:o2:1
# text = So they lay their eggs only at night
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present | they | their eggs |  |  | night |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Chickens get lost in the dark n cant find home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:t10:o3:1
# text = Chickens get lost in the dark n cant find home
1	Chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	get	get	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	n	n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	cant	cant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | present · passive |  | Chickens |  | the dark n cant |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **find** | infinitive |  | home |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Chickens are afraid of the stars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:t10:o4:1
# text = Chickens are afraid of the stars
1	Chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Chickens |  |  |  |  | of the stars; afraid *property* | tree rules |

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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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