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title: «my mate says hedgehogs fire their spikes at dogs» What is right? — Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how… · tree and pragmatics
description: «my mate says hedgehogs fire their spikes at dogs» What is right? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 214 «Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them» of the biology 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 7 · ★★ · Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them

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«my mate says hedgehogs fire their spikes at dogs» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate, fire spikes, their · **What happens:** say, be, spike · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 214 «Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them» 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/214-hedgehogs-spines-hibernation-and-how-to-help-them/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:214-hedgehogs-spines-hibernation-and-how-to-help-them:t7:1
# text = «my mate says hedgehogs fire their spikes at dogs» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	spikes	spike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	ccomp	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
12	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | my mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | their fire spikes at dogs |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **spike** *in a quote* |  | their *= they* |  |  |  |  | at dogs | nom spike «event intransitive»: poss=agent at=obl |

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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 {#o1}

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Yes, up to three metres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:214-hedgehogs-spines-hibernation-and-how-to-help-them:t7:o1:1
# text = Yes, up to three metres
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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No, they cannot throw spines; they roll into a ball

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:214-hedgehogs-spines-hibernation-and-how-to-help-them:t7:o2:1
# text = No, they cannot throw spines; they roll into a ball
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	spines	spine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	roll	roll	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **throw** | can | they | spines |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spine=Theme |
| 2 | **roll** | present | spines *= spine* |  |  | a ball |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ball=Destination |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, they bite hard with their spines when a dog comes too close

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:214-hedgehogs-spines-hibernation-and-how-to-help-them:t7:o3:1
# text = No, they bite hard with their spines when a dog comes too close
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bite	bite	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	spines	spine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | present | they |  |  |  |  | with their spines; hard *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with spine=Instrument |
| 2 | **come** | present | a dog |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, but only at cats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:214-hedgehogs-spines-hibernation-and-how-to-help-them:t7:o4:1
# text = Yes, but only at cats
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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