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title: Identify the hazard presented by lilies to domestic cats. — Caring for pets · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the hazard presented by lilies to domestic cats. Exam question 2 of lesson 27 «Caring for pets» 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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# Exam question 2 · Caring for pets

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Identify the hazard presented by lilies to domestic cats.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, present · **To what, where:** hazard, domestic cats

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 27 «Caring for pets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/27-caring-for-pets/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:27-caring-for-pets:e2:1
# text = Identify the hazard presented by lilies to domestic cats.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hazard	hazard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	presented	present	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the hazard |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent hazard=Theme |
| 2 | **present** | participle |  | the hazard *not said here* | domestic cats |  |  | by lilies | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cat=Recipient |

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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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Lilies are harmless to cats but poisonous to dogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:27-caring-for-pets:e2:o1:1
# text = Lilies are harmless to cats but poisonous to dogs
1	Lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Lilies |  |  |  |  | to cats; harmless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Lilies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to dogs | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Lilies are harmful to cats only when eaten in large quantity

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:27-caring-for-pets:e2:o2:1
# text = Lilies are harmful to cats only when eaten in large quantity
1	Lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	harmful	harmful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
8	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Lilies |  |  |  |  | harmful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | participle · passive |  | cats |  | large quantity |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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

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Lilies, including their pollen, are severely poisonous to cats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:27-caring-for-pets:e2:o3:1
# text = Lilies, including their pollen, are severely poisonous to cats
1	Lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	including	including	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	pollen	pollen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Lilies and Lilies's pollen |  |  |  |  | to cats; poisonous, severely *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Lilies cause cats merely to sneeze

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:27-caring-for-pets:e2:o4:1
# text = Lilies cause cats merely to sneeze
1	Lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | present | Lilies | cats |  |  |  | merely *property* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition cat=Patient |
| 2 | **sneeze** | to-infinitive | Lilies *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «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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