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title: Zoe in Vancouver wants to share her chocolate bar with her dog as a… — Caring for pets · tree and pragmatics
description: Zoe in Vancouver wants to share her chocolate bar with her dog as a treat. Why should she not? Test 1 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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# Test 1 · Caring for pets

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Zoe in Vancouver wants to share her chocolate bar with her dog as a treat. Why should she not?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Zoe · **What happens:** want, share · **To what, where:** chocolate bar

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This is test 1 of lesson 27 «Caring for pets» 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/27-caring-for-pets/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Zoe in Vancouver wants to share her chocolate bar with her dog as a treat.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:27-caring-for-pets:t1:1
# text = Zoe in Vancouver wants to share her chocolate bar with her dog as a treat.
1	Zoe	Zoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Vancouver	Vancouver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	treat	treat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | Zoe in Vancouver |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **share** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Zoe in Vancouver *not said here* | Zoe's chocolate bar |  |  |  | with Zoe's dog; as a treat | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* Why should she not?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:27-caring-for-pets:t1:2
# text = Why should she not?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Chocolate can poison dogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:27-caring-for-pets:t1:o1:1
# text = Chocolate can poison dogs
1	Chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	poison	poison	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **poison** | can | Chocolate | dogs |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Chocolate makes dogs bark all night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:27-caring-for-pets:t1:o2:1
# text = Chocolate makes dogs bark all night
1	Chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	bark	bark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	night	night	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 | **make** | present | Chocolate | dogs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bark** | infinitive | dogs *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It will make the dog's teeth fall out at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:27-caring-for-pets:t1:o3:1
# text = It will make the dog's teeth fall out at once
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | future | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material |
| 2 | **fall out** | present | the dog's teeth |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Dogs do not like sweet things

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:27-caring-for-pets:t1:o4:1
# text = Dogs do not like sweet things
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | Dogs | sweet things |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme |

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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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