---
title: squirrel wants my crisps — Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking · tree and pragmatics
description: squirrel wants my crisps Test 15 · ★ of lesson 299 «Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking» 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking/t15/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking/) / t15

# Test 15 · ★ · Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
squirrel wants my crisps

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** squirrel · **What happens:** want · **To what, where:** crisps

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 299 «Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking» 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/299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking/#t15).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking:t15:1
# text = squirrel wants my crisps
1	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	crisps	crisp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | squirrel | my crisps |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot crisp=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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 -->
Don't feed or touch it, it can bite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking:t15:o1:1
# text = Don't feed or touch it, it can bite
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	feed	feed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **feed** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **touch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **bite** | can | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Feed it with your fingers, slowly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking:t15:o2:1
# text = Feed it with your fingers, slowly
1	Feed	feed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | with your fingers; slowly *property* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Pick it up gently

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking:t15:o3:1
# text = Pick it up gently
1	Pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Hold one out for it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking:t15:o4:1
# text = Hold one out for it
1	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	obj	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold out** | imperative | you *not said here* | one |  |  |  | for it | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking, test 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking/t14/)
- next →: [Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking, test 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking/t16/)
- ↑ back to [Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking/)

