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title: Why can a food be safe for you and dangerous for a dog? — Foods that are dangerous for pets: cho… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why can a food be safe for you and dangerous for a dog? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 331 «Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, grapes, onions and lilies» 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 wro
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# Test 5 · ★ · Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, grapes, onio…

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Why can a food be safe for you and dangerous for a dog?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** food · **What happens:** be

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 331 «Foods that are dangerous for pets: chocolate, grapes, onions and lilies» 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/331-foods-that-are-dangerous-for-pets-chocolate-grapes-onions-and-lilies/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:331-foods-that-are-dangerous-for-pets-chocolate-grapes-onions-and-lilies:t5:1
# text = Why can a food be safe for you and dangerous for a dog?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | a food |  |  |  |  | for you; safe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | a food *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a dog | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Animals' bodies break down chemicals in different ways

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:331-foods-that-are-dangerous-for-pets-chocolate-grapes-onions-and-lilies:t5:o1:1
# text = Animals' bodies break down chemicals in different ways
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break down** | present | Animals's bodies | chemicals |  | different ways |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chemical=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Dogs have more teeth than people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:331-foods-that-are-dangerous-for-pets-chocolate-grapes-onions-and-lilies:t5:o2:1
# text = Dogs have more teeth than people
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Dogs | more teeth |  |  |  | than people | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Dogs eat faster than people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:331-foods-that-are-dangerous-for-pets-chocolate-grapes-onions-and-lilies:t5:o3:1
# text = Dogs eat faster than people
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Dogs |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Food changes its taste and turns bad inside a dog's mouth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:331-foods-that-are-dangerous-for-pets-chocolate-grapes-onions-and-lilies:t5:o4:1
# text = Food changes its taste and turns bad inside a dog's mouth
1	Food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present | Food | Food's taste |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient |
| 2 | **turn** | present | Food *not said here* |  |  | a dog's mouth |  | bad *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme inside mouth=Trajectory |
| 3 | **taste** |  | Food |  |  |  |  |  | nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=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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