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title: Why is giving a hedgehog a saucer of milk a bad idea? — Animals outdoors, on the farm and at t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why is giving a hedgehog a saucer of milk a bad idea? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 206 «Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo» 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 · ★ · Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo

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Why is giving a hedgehog a saucer of milk a bad idea?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** hedgehog

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 206 «Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo» 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/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo:t2:1
# text = Why is giving a hedgehog a saucer of milk a bad idea?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	saucer	saucer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · progressive |  | a hedgehog |  |  |  |  | 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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Milk makes their spines fall out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo:t2:o1:1
# text = Milk makes their spines fall out
1	Milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	spines	spine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	xcomp	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Milk | their spines |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall out** | present | their spines *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Hedgehogs drink only rain water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo:t2:o2:1
# text = Hedgehogs drink only rain water
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | present | Hedgehogs | rain water |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Milk makes hedgehogs ill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo:t2:o3:1
# text = Milk makes hedgehogs ill
1	Milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Milk | hedgehogs |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material hedgehog=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hedgehogs cannot drink at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo:t2:o4:1
# text = Hedgehogs cannot drink at all
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	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	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **drink** | can | Hedgehogs |  |  | all |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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