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title: Which treat is safe to give a dog? — Saving energy, pets at home and the ba… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which treat is safe to give a dog? Test 2 of lesson 118 «Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom» of the everyday 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 2 · Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom

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Which treat is safe to give a dog?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** treat · **What happens:** be, give · **To what, where:** dog

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This is test 2 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom:t2:1
# text = Which treat is safe to give a dog?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	treat	treat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which treat |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | which treat *not said here* | a dog |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A handful of raisins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom:t2:o1:1
# text = A handful of raisins
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	raisins	raisin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A piece of chocolate cake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom:t2:o2:1
# text = A piece of chocolate cake
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A dog biscuit made for dogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom:t2:o3:1
# text = A dog biscuit made for dogs
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	biscuit	biscuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	for	for	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 | **make** | participle |  | a dog biscuit *not said here* |  |  |  | for dogs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for dog=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Onion rings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom:t2:o4:1
# text = Onion rings
1	Onion	onion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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