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title: A dog left alone with no toys has dug holes and torn up a cushion. W… — How pets feel and saying goodbye · tree and pragmatics
description: A dog left alone with no toys has dug holes and torn up a cushion. What is it most likely feeling? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 66 «How pets feel and saying goodbye» 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 8 · ★ · How pets feel and saying goodbye

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A dog left alone with no toys has dug holes and torn up a cushion. What is it most likely feeling?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** leave, dig, tear up, be · **To what, where:** dog, cushion

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 66 «How pets feel and saying goodbye» 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/66-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A dog left alone with no toys has dug holes and torn up a cushion.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:66-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye:t8:1
# text = A dog left alone with no toys has dug holes and torn up a cushion.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cushion	cushion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle |  | a dog *not said here* |  |  |  | with no toys; alone *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with toy=Theme |
| 2 | **dig** | present · perfect · passive |  | a dog |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary hole=Result |
| 3 | **tear up** | participle |  | a cushion |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location cushion=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 is it most likely feeling?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:66-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye:t8:2
# text = What is it most likely feeling?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
5	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | dog |  |  |  |  | feel, likely *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Hungry for cushions

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:66-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye:t8:o1:1
# text = Hungry for cushions
1	Hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Proud and happy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:66-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye:t8:o2:1
# text = Proud and happy
1	Proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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Bored and unhappy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:66-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye:t8:o3:1
# text = Bored and unhappy
1	Bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sleepy and calm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:66-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye:t8:o4:1
# text = Sleepy and calm
1	Sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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