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title: Why do some places in Australia ask cat owners to keep cats inside? — Cats through history: Egypt's sacred c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do some places in Australia ask cat owners to keep cats inside? Test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 294 «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry» 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 12 · ★★★ · Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and T…

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Why do some places in Australia ask cat owners to keep cats inside?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** places, cat owners · **What happens:** do, ask, keep · **To what, where:** cat owners, cats

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This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 294 «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry» 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/294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry:t12:1
# text = Why do some places in Australia ask cat owners to keep cats inside?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	owners	owner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
12	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | some places in Australia *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | some places in Australia | cat owners |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | cat owners *not said here* | cats |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Australian cats are dangerous to people and often attack

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry:t12:o1:1
# text = Australian cats are dangerous to people and often attack
1	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	attack	attack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Australian cats |  |  |  |  | to people; dangerous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **attack** | present | Australian cats *not said here* |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cats there are too hot outside in the burning summer sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry:t12:o2:1
# text = Cats there are too hot outside in the burning summer sun
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Cats |  |  | the summer sun |  | hot, outside *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Kangaroos chase cats and kick them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry:t12:o3:1
# text = Kangaroos chase cats and kick them
1	Kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	chase	chase	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	kick	kick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase** | present | Kangaroos | cats |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme |
| 2 | **kick** | infinitive | Kangaroos *not said here* | cats *= cat* |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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

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Cats are a big threat to native birds and small animals there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry:t12:o4:1
# text = Cats are a big threat to native birds and small animals there
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	threat	threat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Cats | a big threat |  | there |  | to native birds and small animals | tree rules |

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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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