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title: A storks' nest on a roof stands empty all winter and the storks retu… — Migration and hibernation · tree and pragmatics
description: A storks' nest on a roof stands empty all winter and the storks return in April. What did the storks do? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 28 «Migration and hibernation» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was rig
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# Test 1 · ★ · Migration and hibernation

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A storks' nest on a roof stands empty all winter and the storks return in April. What did the storks do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** nest, storks · **What happens:** stand, return, do

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 28 «Migration and hibernation» of the world 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/world/28-migration-and-hibernation/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A storks' nest on a roof stands empty all winter and the storks return in April.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t1:1
# text = A storks' nest on a roof stands empty all winter and the storks return in April.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	return	return	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | a storks's nest on a roof |  |  |  | winter | empty *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **return** | present | the storks |  |  |  | april |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:* What did the storks do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t1:2
# text = What did the storks do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | the storks |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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They hibernated

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t1:o1:1
# text = They hibernated
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hibernated	hibernate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hibernate** | past | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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They migrated

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t1:o2:1
# text = They migrated
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	migrated	migrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **migrate** | past | They |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They stored food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t1:o3:1
# text = They stored food
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stored	store	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **store** | past | They | food |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They changed colour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t1:o4:1
# text = They changed colour
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | They | colour |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |

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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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