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title: Why do parks ask dog owners to pick up after their dogs? — Wild birds, bats and germs from animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do parks ask dog owners to pick up after their dogs? Test 5 · ★ 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 was wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★ · Wild birds, bats and germs from animals

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Why do parks ask dog owners to pick up after their dogs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** parks, dog owners · **What happens:** ask, pick up · **To what, where:** dog owners

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:29-germs-from-animals:t5:1
# text = Why do parks ask dog owners to pick up after their dogs?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	parks	park	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	owners	owner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · do-support | parks | dog owners |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **pick up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | dog owners *not said here* |  |  |  | after parks's dogs |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: 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 {#o1}

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Dog poo is bad luck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:29-germs-from-animals:t5:o1:1
# text = Dog poo is bad luck
1	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	poo	poo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Dog poo | bad luck |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It makes the park smell nicer for dogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:29-germs-from-animals:t5:o2:1
# text = It makes the park smell nicer for dogs
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	nicer	nice	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | the park smell |  |  |  | nice *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material smell=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It feeds the birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:29-germs-from-animals:t5:o3:1
# text = It feeds the birds
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	feeds	feed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | present | It |  | the birds |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Dog poo can spread worm eggs to children

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:29-germs-from-animals:t5:o4:1
# text = Dog poo can spread worm eggs to children
1	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	poo	poo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | can | Dog poo | worm eggs |  |  |  | to children | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location egg=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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