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title: Why is it wrong to walk between a mother moose and her calf? — Wild animals: keep away, never feed · tree and pragmatics
description: Why is it wrong to walk between a mother moose and her calf? Test 9 · ★★ 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 9 · ★★ · Wild animals: keep away, never feed

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Why is it wrong to walk between a mother moose and her calf?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** it · **What happens:** be, walk · **To what, where:** mother moose

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:26-wild-animals:t9:1
# text = Why is it wrong to walk between a mother moose and her calf?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	moose	moose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | a mother moose and her calf |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between moose=Trajectory |

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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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Moose are scared of children

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:26-wild-animals:t9:o1:1
# text = Moose are scared of children
1	Moose	moose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Moose |  |  |  |  | of children; scared *property* | tree rules |

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

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The mother will defend her calf and may charge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:26-wild-animals:t9:o2:1
# text = The mother will defend her calf and may charge
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	defend	defend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	charge	charge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **defend** | future | the mother |  | mother's calf |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **charge** | may | the mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The calf will follow you home and lose its mother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:26-wild-animals:t9:o3:1
# text = The calf will follow you home and lose its mother
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | future | the calf | you |  |  |  | home *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | infinitive | the calf *not said here* | calf's mother |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The mother will lose her way

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:26-wild-animals:t9:o4:1
# text = The mother will lose her way
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | future | the mother | her *= she* |  |  |  | way *obl:unmarked* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |

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