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title: Why do worms come up onto paths after heavy rain? — Chickens, goats and little creatures · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do worms come up onto paths after heavy rain? Test 5 · ★ 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 5 · ★ · Chickens, goats and little creatures

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Why do worms come up onto paths after heavy rain?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** worms · **What happens:** come up · **To what, where:** paths

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:t5:1
# text = Why do worms come up onto paths after heavy rain?
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	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 | **come up** | present · do-support | worms |  |  | paths | after heavy rain |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme onto path=Initial\_Location |

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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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Rain makes them hungry for stones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:t5:o1:1
# text = Rain makes them hungry for stones
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Rain | them *= they* |  |  |  | for stones; hungry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent they=Product for stone=Asset |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They are looking for a new garden to live in for good

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:t5:o2:1
# text = They are looking for a new garden to live in for good
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	aux	_	_
3	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present · progressive | They |  |  |  |  | for a new garden | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for garden=Theme |
| 2 | **live in** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for good | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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The ground is wet, and they can then dry out on paths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:t5:o3:1
# text = The ground is wet, and they can then dry out on paths
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the ground |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dry out** | can | they |  |  | paths | then |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They want to sunbathe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:t5:o4:1
# text = They want to sunbathe
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	sunbathe	sunbathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **sunbathe** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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