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title: Ben in Ontario holds his pet turtle and then eats an apple without w… — Wild birds, bats and germs from animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Ben in Ontario holds his pet turtle and then eats an apple without washing. What might happen? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 29 «Wild birds, bats and germs from 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 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Wild birds, bats and germs from animals

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Ben in Ontario holds his pet turtle and then eats an apple without washing. What might happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ben · **What happens:** hold, eat, wash, happen · **To what, where:** pet turtle, apple

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 29 «Wild birds, bats and germs from 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/29-germs-from-animals/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ben in Ontario holds his pet turtle and then eats an apple without washing.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:29-germs-from-animals:t1:1
# text = Ben in Ontario holds his pet turtle and then eats an apple without washing.
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Ontario	Ontario	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present | Ben in Ontario | Ben's pet turtle |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turtle=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | present | Ben in Ontario *not said here* | a apple |  |  | then |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient |
| 3 | **wash** | gerund | Ben in Ontario *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What might happen?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:29-germs-from-animals:t1:2
# text = What might happen?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | might |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

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

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He could swallow salmonella germs and get ill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:29-germs-from-animals:t1:o1:1
# text = He could swallow salmonella germs and get ill
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	salmonella	salmonella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | could | He | salmonella germs |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, pet turtles never carry any germs at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:29-germs-from-animals:t1:o2:1
# text = Nothing, pet turtles never carry any germs at all
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	turtles	turtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **carry** | present | Nothing turtles | any germs |  | all |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The turtle will catch his cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:29-germs-from-animals:t1:o3:1
# text = The turtle will catch his cold
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | future | the turtle | turtle's cold |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The apple will turn green

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:29-germs-from-animals:t1:o4:1
# text = The apple will turn green
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | future | the apple |  |  |  |  | green *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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