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title: Identify the principal reason for which a pet animal requires daily… — Chores you skipped · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal reason for which a pet animal requires daily attention to its food and water. Exam question 2 of lesson 350 «Chores you skipped» 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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# Exam question 2 · Chores you skipped

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Identify the principal reason for which a pet animal requires daily attention to its food and water.

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, pet animal · **What happens:** identify, require · **To what, where:** principal reason, daily attention

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 350 «Chores you skipped» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/350-chores-you-skipped/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:350-chores-you-skipped:e2:1
# text = Identify the principal reason for which a pet animal requires daily attention to its food and water.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	requires	require	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl	_	_
11	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the principal reason |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |
| 2 | **require** | present | a pet animal | daily attention |  |  |  | for the principal reason; to animal's food and water | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme attention=Precondition |

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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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It is capable of feeding itself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:350-chores-you-skipped:e2:o1:1
# text = It is capable of feeding itself
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	capable	capable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | capable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feed** | gerund |  | itself *= it* |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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It requires food only weekly and suffers no harm from an occasional omission

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:350-chores-you-skipped:e2:o2:1
# text = It requires food only weekly and suffers no harm from an occasional omission
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	requires	require	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	weekly	weekly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	suffers	suffer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	occasional	occasional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	omission	omission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **require** | present | It | food |  |  |  | weekly *property* | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme food=Precondition |
| 2 | **suffer** | present |  | no harm |  | a occasional omission |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer harm=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It is wholly dependent upon its keeper and cannot obtain them itself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:350-chores-you-skipped:e2:o3:1
# text = It is wholly dependent upon its keeper and cannot obtain them itself
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	wholly	wholly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	dependent	dependent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | upon its keeper; dependent, wholly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **obtain** | can |  | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It suffers no harm from neglect

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:350-chores-you-skipped:e2:o4:1
# text = It suffers no harm from neglect
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	suffers	suffer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	neglect	neglect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | present | It | no harm |  | neglect |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer harm=Stimulus |

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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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