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title: Why might a Ukrainian village house have a big nest on a pole near t… — Farm animals, forest animals and pets · tree and pragmatics
description: Why might a Ukrainian village house have a big nest on a pole near the roof? Test 4 of lesson 22 «Farm animals, forest animals and pets» of the Ukrainian street 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 4 · Farm animals, forest animals and pets

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Why might a Ukrainian village house have a big nest on a pole near the roof?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ukrainian village house · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** big nest, pole

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This is test 4 of lesson 22 «Farm animals, forest animals and pets» of the Ukrainian street 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/ukrainian-street/22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets:t4:1
# text = Why might a Ukrainian village house have a big nest on a pole near the roof?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	near	near	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | might | a Ukrainian village house | a big nest |  | a pole near the roof |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Patient |

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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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A stork nests there, a symbol of home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets:t4:o1:1
# text = A stork nests there, a symbol of home
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	nests	nest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	symbol	symbol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nest** | present | a stork | a symbol of home |  | there |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It's a decoration made of sticks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets:t4:o2:1
# text = It's a decoration made of sticks
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	decoration	decoration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a decoration |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a decoration *not said here* |  |  |  | of sticks | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It's a bird trap, to catch birds for dinner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets:t4:o3:1
# text = It's a bird trap, to catch birds for dinner
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a bird trap |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | to-infinitive |  | birds |  |  |  | for dinner | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bird=Theme for dinner=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Owls are kept for mice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets:t4:o4:1
# text = Owls are kept for mice
1	Owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present · passive |  | Owls |  |  |  | for mice | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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