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title: can the dog have my choc cake, he's begging — Caring for pets and staying safe aroun… · tree and pragmatics
description: can the dog have my choc cake, he's begging Test 11 · ★ of lesson 287 «Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo 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 11 · ★ · Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
can the dog have my choc cake, he's begging

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** have, beg · **To what, where:** choc cake

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 287 «Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo 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/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely:t11:1
# text = can the dog have my choc cake, he's begging
1	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	choc	choc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | can | the dog | my choc cake |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | present · progressive | dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, chocolate can make dogs very ill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely:t11:o1:1
# text = No, chocolate can make dogs very ill
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | can | chocolate | dogs |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material dog=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, if it's only milk chocolate and not dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely:t11:o2:1
# text = Yes, if it's only milk chocolate and not dark
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | milk chocolate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only on his birthday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely:t11:o3:1
# text = Only on his birthday
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, a small bite is fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely:t11:o4:1
# text = Yes, a small bite is fine
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a small bite |  |  |  |  | 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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