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# Test 9 · ★ · Kindness to wild animals

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«there's a dog chained in next door's yard all day every day, none of my business tho» What is kindest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** be, chain · **To what, where:** dog

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 226 «Kindness to wild animals» 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/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:226-kindness-to-wild-animals:t9:1
# text = «there's a dog chained in next door's yard all day every day, none of my business tho» What is kindest?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	chained	chain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	5	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	tho	tho	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	kindest	kind	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a dog |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **chain** *in a quote* | participle |  | a dog *not said here* |  |  | day | in next door's yard | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Tell an adult, who can contact an animal welfare charity

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:226-kindness-to-wild-animals:t9:o1:1
# text = Tell an adult, who can contact an animal welfare charity
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	contact	contact	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	welfare	welfare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	charity	charity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **contact** | can |  | a welfare charity |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Climb over and set it free

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:226-kindness-to-wild-animals:t9:o2:1
# text = Climb over and set it free
1	Climb	climb	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	over	over	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb over** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **set** | infinitive | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Throw it food over the fence

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:226-kindness-to-wild-animals:t9:o3:1
# text = Throw it food over the fence
1	Throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  | the fence |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ignore it, dogs love being alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:226-kindness-to-wild-animals:t9:o4:1
# text = Ignore it, dogs love being alone
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	xcomp	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ignore** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **love** | present | dogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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