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title: Which is true about a calm family dog and a toddler? — Bedroom, living room and manners at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is true about a calm family dog and a toddler? Test 5 of lesson 119 «Bedroom, living room and manners at home» 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 wrong.
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# Test 5 · Bedroom, living room and manners at home

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Which is true about a calm family dog and a toddler?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 5 of lesson 119 «Bedroom, living room and manners at home» 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/119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners:t5:1
# text = Which is true about a calm family dog and a toddler?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	toddler	toddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about a calm family dog and a toddler; true *property* | 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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Toddlers cannot hurt dogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners:t5:o1:1
# text = Toddlers cannot hurt dogs
1	Toddlers	toddler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hurt** | can | Toddlers | dogs |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Dogs only snap at grown-ups

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners:t5:o2:1
# text = Dogs only snap at grown-ups
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	snap	snap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snap** | present | Dogs |  |  | grown ups |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at up=Location |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A calm dog never snaps at anyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners:t5:o3:1
# text = A calm dog never snaps at anyone
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	snaps	snap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **snap** | present | a calm dog |  |  | anyone |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at anyone=Location |

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

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Even a calm dog can snap if it is pulled or hurt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners:t5:o4:1
# text = Even a calm dog can snap if it is pulled or hurt
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	snap	snap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snap** | can | a calm dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **pull** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | dog |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **hurt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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