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title: cans had those plastic rings, just bin them? — Kindness to animals · tree and pragmatics
description: cans had those plastic rings, just bin them? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 207 «Kindness to animals» 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 9 · ★ · Kindness to animals

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cans had those plastic rings, just bin them?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cans · **What happens:** have, bin · **To what, where:** plastic rings, rings

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 207 «Kindness to animals» 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/207-kindness-to-animals/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:207-kindness-to-animals:t9:1
# text = cans had those plastic rings, just bin them?
1	cans	can	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	plastic	plastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	bin	bin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | cans | that plastic rings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient |
| 2 | **bin** | infinitive | cans *not said here* | rings *= ring* |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Cut the rings first so animals don't get trapped

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:207-kindness-to-animals:t9:o1:1
# text = Cut the rings first so animals don't get trapped
1	Cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	_
5	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	trapped	trap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | imperative | you *not said here* | the rings |  |  |  | first *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ring=Product |
| 2 | **not** **trap** | present · passive · do-support |  | animals |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Throw them in the river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:207-kindness-to-animals:t9:o2:1
# text = Throw them in the river
1	Throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  | the river |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme in river=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Keep them as bracelets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:207-kindness-to-animals:t9:o3:1
# text = Keep them as bracelets
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bracelets	bracelet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  | as bracelets | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bin them whole, it's fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:207-kindness-to-animals:t9:o4:1
# text = Bin them whole, it's fine
1	Bin	bin	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  | whole *property* | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |

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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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