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title: Why should a dog be kept away from the water's edge in Florida? — Wild animals: keep away, never feed · tree and pragmatics
description: Why should a dog be kept away from the water's edge in Florida? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 26 «Wild animals: keep away, never feed» 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 7 · ★★ · Wild animals: keep away, never feed

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Why should a dog be kept away from the water's edge in Florida?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** keep away · **To what, where:** dog, edge

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 26 «Wild animals: keep away, never feed» 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/26-wild-animals/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:26-wild-animals:t7:1
# text = Why should a dog be kept away from the water's edge in Florida?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Florida	Florida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep away** | should · passive |  | a dog |  | the water's edge in Florida |  | away *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from edge=Eventuality |

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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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Dogs cannot swim in fresh water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:26-wild-animals:t7:o1:1
# text = Dogs cannot swim in fresh water
1	Dogs	dog	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	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **swim** | can | Dogs |  |  | fresh water |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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An alligator could grab it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:26-wild-animals:t7:o2:1
# text = An alligator could grab it
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	alligator	alligator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grab	grab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | could | a alligator | it |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Fish might nip at its paws in the water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:26-wild-animals:t7:o3:1
# text = Fish might nip at its paws in the water
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	nip	nip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nip** | might | Fish |  |  | Fish's paws |  | in the water | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at paw=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The water is bad for their fur

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:26-wild-animals:t7:o4:1
# text = The water is bad for their fur
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the water |  |  |  |  | for their fur; bad *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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