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title: A bird has a long, thin, curved beak. What does it most likely eat? — Birds: feathers, nests and flight · tree and pragmatics
description: A bird has a long, thin, curved beak. What does it most likely eat? Test 2 · ★ 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 2 · ★ · Birds: feathers, nests and flight

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A bird has a long, thin, curved beak. What does it most likely eat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bird · **What happens:** have, eat · **To what, where:** long thin curved beak

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A bird has a long, thin, curved beak.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:73-birds-feathers-nests-flight:t2:1
# text = A bird has a long, thin, curved beak.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	curved	curved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a bird | a long thin curved beak |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What does it most likely eat?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:73-birds-feathers-nests-flight:t2:2
# text = What does it most likely eat?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present · do-support | bird |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Big hard seeds and nuts from trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:73-birds-feathers-nests-flight:t2:o1:1
# text = Big hard seeds and nuts from trees
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Little fish sifted from the mud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:73-birds-feathers-nests-flight:t2:o2:1
# text = Little fish sifted from the mud
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	sifted	sift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sift** | participle |  | Little fish *not said here* |  |  |  | from the mud | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent from mud=Co-Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Meat from other small animals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:73-birds-feathers-nests-flight:t2:o3:1
# text = Meat from other small animals
1	Meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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Nectar from deep flowers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:73-birds-feathers-nests-flight:t2:o4:1
# text = Nectar from deep flowers
1	Nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

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