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title: Why do people keep a lamp over a lizard's tank all day? — Pet care, food and responsibility · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do people keep a lamp over a lizard's tank all day? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 205 «Pet care, food and responsibility» 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 3 · ★ · Pet care, food and responsibility

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Why do people keep a lamp over a lizard's tank all day?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** keep · **To what, where:** lamp, tank

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 205 «Pet care, food and responsibility» 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/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility:t3:1
# text = Why do people keep a lamp over a lizard's tank all day?
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	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lizard	lizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	tank	tank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present · do-support | people | a lamp |  | a lizard's tank | day |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme over tank=Location |

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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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The lamp keeps flies and other insects away from the tank

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility:t3:o1:1
# text = The lamp keeps flies and other insects away from the tank
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tank	tank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | the lamp | flies and other insects |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Lizards need the light to read the labels on their food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility:t3:o2:1
# text = Lizards need the light to read the labels on their food
1	Lizards	lizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	labels	label	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Lizards | the light |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot light=Theme |
| 2 | **read** | to-infinitive | Lizards *not said here* | the labels |  | Lizards's food |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Topic |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The lizard cannot warm itself and gets ill when cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility:t3:o3:1
# text = The lizard cannot warm itself and gets ill when cold
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lizard	lizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	warm	warm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **warm** | can | the lizard | lizard |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | present | the lizard *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Lizards can only fall asleep in bright light

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility:t3:o4:1
# text = Lizards can only fall asleep in bright light
1	Lizards	lizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | can | Lizards |  |  | bright light |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in light=Location |

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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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