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title: In a cartoon a girl cuddles a wild hedgehog and gives it a saucer of… — Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: anim… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon a girl cuddles a wild hedgehog and gives it a saucer of milk. What's wrong? Test 6 of lesson 458 «Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 6 · Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not you…

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In a cartoon a girl cuddles a wild hedgehog and gives it a saucer of milk. What's wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** cuddle, give, be · **To what, where:** wild hedgehog, cartoon, hedgehog

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This is test 6 of lesson 458 «Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends» 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/458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon a girl cuddles a wild hedgehog and gives it a saucer of milk.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends:t6:1
# text = In a cartoon a girl cuddles a wild hedgehog and gives it a saucer of milk.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cuddles	cuddle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	saucer	saucer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cuddle** | present | a girl | a wild hedgehog |  | a cartoon |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **give** | present | a girl *not said here* | hedgehog |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient saucer=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends:t6:2
# text = What's wrong?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Cuddling makes them grow faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends:t6:o1:1
# text = Cuddling makes them grow faster
1	Cuddling	cuddle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cuddle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | present |  | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, that's how you look after them properly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends:t6:o2:1
# text = Nothing, that's how you look after them properly
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | how *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | present | you |  |  |  | after them *= they* | properly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Hedgehogs only drink tea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends:t6:o3:1
# text = Hedgehogs only drink tea
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | present | Hedgehogs | tea |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Hedgehogs are wild and milk is bad for them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends:t6:o4:1
# text = Hedgehogs are wild and milk is bad for them
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Hedgehogs |  |  |  |  | wild *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | milk |  |  |  |  | for Hedgehogs *= hedgehog*; 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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