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description: A cartoon dog buries a bone and forgets where. What do real foxes and wild dogs often do? Test 11 of lesson 121 «Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 11 · Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?

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A cartoon dog buries a bone and forgets where. What do real foxes and wild dogs often do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cartoon dog, real foxes · **What happens:** bury, forget, be, do · **To what, where:** bone

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This is test 11 of lesson 121 «Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?» of the biology 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/biology/121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon dog buries a bone and forgets where.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats:t11:1
# text = A cartoon dog buries a bone and forgets where.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	buries	bury	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	forgets	forget	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** | present | a cartoon dog | a bone |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme |
| 2 | **forget** | present | a cartoon dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 do real foxes and wild dogs often do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats:t11:2
# text = What do real foxes and wild dogs often do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | real foxes and wild dogs |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Remember many of their hiding places

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats:t11:o1:1
# text = Remember many of their hiding places
1	Remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hiding	hiding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | imperative | you *not said here* | many of their hiding places |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent many=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Bury only stones, not food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats:t11:o2:1
# text = Bury only stones, not food
1	Bury	bury	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** | imperative | you *not said here* | stones |  |  |  | food *obl* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Bury food only in winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats:t11:o3:1
# text = Bury food only in winter
1	Bury	bury	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** | imperative | you *not said here* | food |  |  | winter |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Never come back for buried food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats:t11:o4:1
# text = Never come back for buried food
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **come back** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for buried food | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bury** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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