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title: my mate swears her dog ate a whole chocolate cake n "exploded". what… — Saving energy, pets at home and the ba… · tree and pragmatics
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# Test 17 · Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
my mate swears her dog ate a whole chocolate cake n "exploded". what's probs exaggerated

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate, dog, whole chocolate cake n · **What happens:** swear, eat, explode, be, exaggerate · **To what, where:** whole chocolate cake n, probs

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This is test 17 of lesson 118 «Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom» of the everyday 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/everyday/118-energy-pets-and-bathroom/#t17).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom:t17:1
# text = my mate swears her dog ate a whole chocolate cake n "exploded". what's probs exaggerated
1	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	swears	swear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	n	n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	exploded	explode	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	probs	prob	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
19	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | present | my mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | past | mate's dog | a whole chocolate cake n |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent n=Patient |
| 3 | **explode** *in a quote* | past | a whole chocolate cake n *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | probs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **exaggerate** | participle |  | probs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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That dogs should never be given chocolate cake or chocolate treats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom:t17:o1:1
# text = That dogs should never be given chocolate cake or chocolate treats
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	treats	treat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **give** | should · passive |  | that dogs |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient cake=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
That the dog may need a vet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom:t17:o2:1
# text = That the dog may need a vet
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | may | that dog | a vet |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vet=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
That chocolate is poisonous to dogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom:t17:o3:1
# text = That chocolate is poisonous to dogs
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that chocolate |  |  |  |  | to dogs; poisonous *property* | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The exploding; chocolate really can make a dog very ill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom:t17:o4:1
# text = The exploding; chocolate really can make a dog very ill
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	exploding	exploding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | can | the exploding and chocolate | a dog |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dog=Product |

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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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