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title: A boy in Manchester buys two guinea pigs but feeds them only dry pel… — Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Manchester buys two guinea pigs but feeds them only dry pellets and water. What is missing? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 63 «Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish» 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
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# Test 1 · ★ · Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish

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A boy in Manchester buys two guinea pigs but feeds them only dry pellets and water. What is missing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** buy, feed, be · **To what, where:** two guinea pigs, pigs

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 63 «Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish» 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/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy in Manchester buys two guinea pigs but feeds them only dry pellets and water.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish:t1:1
# text = A boy in Manchester buys two guinea pigs but feeds them only dry pellets and water.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	buys	buy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	guinea	guinea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	feeds	feed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	pellets	pellet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | present | a boy in Manchester | two guinea pigs |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Theme |
| 2 | **feed** | present | a boy in Manchester *not said here* | pigs *= pig* |  |  |  | dry pellets and water *obl* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |

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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 is missing?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish:t1:2
# text = What is missing?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	missing	missing	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 |  |  |  |  |  | missing *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Meat for protein

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish:t1:o1:1
# text = Meat for protein
1	Meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	protein	protein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Nothing, pellets and water are all that guinea pigs need

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish:t1:o2:1
# text = Nothing, pellets and water are all that guinea pigs need
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	pellets	pellet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
9	guinea	guinea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Nothing | guinea pigs |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** | present | guinea pigs |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Milk for strong bones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish:t1:o3:1
# text = Milk for strong bones
1	Milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

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Fresh vegetables for vitamin C every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish:t1:o4:1
# text = Fresh vegetables for vitamin C every day
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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