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title: squirrel came right up to me!! give it my crisps? — Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking · tree and pragmatics
description: squirrel came right up to me!! give it my crisps? Test 9 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
squirrel came right up to me!! give it my crisps?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** squirrel · **What happens:** come, give · **To what, where:** squirrel

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking:t9:1
# text = squirrel came right up to me!! give it my crisps?
1	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	right	right	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!!	!!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	crisps	crisp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | squirrel |  |  |  |  | up me; right *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme up i=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive | squirrel *not said here* | squirrel |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient crisp=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Yes, but hold it still so it can't bite you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking:t9:o1:1
# text = Yes, but hold it still so it can't bite you
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present |  | it |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **bite** | can | it | you |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Feed it just a little bit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking:t9:o2:1
# text = Feed it just a little bit
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	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | a little bit *obl* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, squirrels love crisps

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking:t9:o3:1
# text = Yes, squirrels love crisps
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	crisps	crisp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | squirrels | crisps |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crisp=Stimulus |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, watch from far away, people food is bad for it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking:t9:o4:1
# text = No, watch from far away, people food is bad for it
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	compound	_	_
9	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | people food |  |  |  |  | for it; bad *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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