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title: Why do some dog bowls have bumps inside? — Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do some dog bowls have bumps inside? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 396 «Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker» 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 w
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# Test 3 · ★ · Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Wi…

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Why do some dog bowls have bumps inside?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dog bowls · **What happens:** do, have · **To what, where:** bumps

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 396 «Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker» 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/396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker:t3:1
# text = Why do some dog bowls have bumps 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	6	advcl	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	bowls	bowl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	bumps	bump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | some dog bowls *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | some dog bowls | bumps |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bump=Patient |

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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 {#o1}

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To stop the bowl sliding on the floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker:t3:o1:1
# text = To stop the bowl sliding on the floor
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	sliding	slide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | to-infinitive |  | the bowl |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality bowl=Eventuality |
| 2 | **slide** | gerund | the bowl *not said here* |  |  | the floor |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To clean the dog's teeth while it is eating

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker:t3:o2:1
# text = To clean the dog's teeth while it is eating
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	clean	clean	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clean** | to-infinitive |  | the dog's teeth |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | present · progressive | dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To make the food taste better

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker:t3:o3:1
# text = To make the food taste better
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | the food taste |  |  |  | good *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset taste=Product |

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

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To slow a dog down so it does not gulp

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker:t3:o4:1
# text = To slow a dog down so it does not gulp
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	slow	slow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	gulp	gulp	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slow down** | to-infinitive |  | a dog |  |  |  | down *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **gulp** | present · do-support | dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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