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title: Why do countries make rules about animals coming in? — Lost pets, microchips, holidays and mo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do countries make rules about animals coming in? Test 8 of lesson 332 «Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house» 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 right.
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# Test 8 · Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house

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Why do countries make rules about animals coming in?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** countries, animals · **What happens:** make, come in · **To what, where:** rules

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This is test 8 of lesson 332 «Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house» 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/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house:t8:1
# text = Why do countries make rules about animals coming in?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADV	RB	_	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 | **make** | present · do-support | countries | rules |  |  |  | about animals | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rule=Product |
| 2 | **come in** | gerund | animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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To stop pets eating any foreign food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house:t8:o1:1
# text = To stop pets eating any foreign food
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | to-infinitive |  | pets |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund |  | any foreign food |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To count how many pets are on holiday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house:t8:o2:1
# text = To count how many pets are on holiday
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | to-infinitive |  | many pets |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  | holiday |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To make pets learn a new language

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house:t8:o3:1
# text = To make pets learn a new language
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
3	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	learn	learn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | pets |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pet=Product |
| 2 | **learn** | imperative | you *not said here* | a new language |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Topic |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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To keep diseases like rabies out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house:t8:o4:1
# text = To keep diseases like rabies out
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	diseases	disease	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	rabies	rabies	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | diseases |  |  |  | like rabies; out *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=Theme |

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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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