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title: dog outside the shop looks friendly, can i pat it — Caring for pets and staying safe aroun… · tree and pragmatics
description: dog outside the shop looks friendly, can i pat it Test 15 · ★ 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 15 · ★ · Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo…

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dog outside the shop looks friendly, can i pat it

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** dog, i · **What happens:** look, pat · **To what, where:** dog

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This is test 15 · ★ 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/#t15).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely:t15:1
# text = dog outside the shop looks friendly, can i pat it
1	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	pat	pat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | dog outside the shop |  |  |  |  | friendly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **pat** | can | i | dog |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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Yes, if it wags its tail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely:t15:o1:1
# text = Yes, if it wags its tail
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wags	wag	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wag** | present | it | its tail |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, all tied dogs are friendly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely:t15:o2:1
# text = Yes, all tied dogs are friendly
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | all tied dogs |  |  |  |  | friendly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, if you go up slowly and quietly from behind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely:t15:o3:1
# text = Yes, if you go up slowly and quietly from behind
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | present | you |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, ask the owner first, a scared dog may bite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely:t15:o4:1
# text = No, ask the owner first, a scared dog may bite
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | the owner |  |  |  | first *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient |
| 2 | **bite** | may | a scared dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: 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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