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title: A duck dives under the water and comes up with dry feathers undernea… — Birds: feathers, nests and flight · tree and pragmatics
description: A duck dives under the water and comes up with dry feathers underneath. Why? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 73 «Birds: feathers, nests and flight» 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 wrong.
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# Test 1 · ★ · Birds: feathers, nests and flight

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A duck dives under the water and comes up with dry feathers underneath. Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** duck · **What happens:** dive, come up · **To what, where:** water

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 73 «Birds: feathers, nests and flight» 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/73-birds-feathers-nests-flight/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A duck dives under the water and comes up with dry feathers underneath.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:73-birds-feathers-nests-flight:t1:1
# text = A duck dives under the water and comes up with dry feathers underneath.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dives	dive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dive** | present | a duck |  |  | the water |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under water=Location |
| 2 | **come up** | present | a duck *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with dry feathers; underneath *property* | 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:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:73-birds-feathers-nests-flight:t1:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ducks dive too briefly to get wet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:73-birds-feathers-nests-flight:t1:o1:1
# text = Ducks dive too briefly to get wet
1	Ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dive	dive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	briefly	briefly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dive** | present | Ducks |  |  |  |  | briefly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | Ducks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The water is too cold to wet feathers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:73-birds-feathers-nests-flight:t1:o2:1
# text = The water is too cold to wet feathers
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	feathers	feather	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** | present | the water |  |  |  |  | to wet feathers; cold *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ducks have no feathers at all under their wings and belly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:73-birds-feathers-nests-flight:t1:o3:1
# text = Ducks have no feathers at all under their wings and belly
1	Ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Ducks | no feathers |  | all |  | under Ducks's wings and belly | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Its feathers are oiled and waterproof from preening

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:73-birds-feathers-nests-flight:t1:o4:1
# text = Its feathers are oiled and waterproof from preening
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	oiled	oil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	waterproof	waterproof	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	preening	preen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oil** | present · passive |  | Its feathers |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **preen** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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