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title: A family finds a hedgehog in their Dublin garden and puts out a sauc… — Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours · tree and pragmatics
description: A family finds a hedgehog in their Dublin garden and puts out a saucer of milk. Why is this a mistake? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 69 «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours

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A family finds a hedgehog in their Dublin garden and puts out a saucer of milk. Why is this a mistake?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** family, this · **What happens:** find, put out, be · **To what, where:** hedgehog, Dublin garden, saucer

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 69 «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» 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/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A family finds a hedgehog in their Dublin garden and puts out a saucer of milk.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours:t6:1
# text = A family finds a hedgehog in their Dublin garden and puts out a saucer of milk.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
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	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | a family | a hedgehog |  | their Dublin garden |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Topic |
| 2 | **put out** | present | a family *not said here* | a saucer of milk |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent saucer=Goal |

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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:* Why is this a mistake?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours:t6:2
# text = Why is this a mistake?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	nsubj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Milk is too cold for hedgehogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours:t6:o1:1
# text = Milk is too cold for hedgehogs
1	Milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Milk |  |  |  |  | for hedgehogs; cold *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Hedgehogs only drink juice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours:t6:o2:1
# text = Hedgehogs only drink juice
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	juice	juice	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 | juice |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent juice=Patient |

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

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Milk makes hedgehogs ill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours:t6:o3:1
# text = Milk makes hedgehogs ill
1	Milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Milk | hedgehogs |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material hedgehog=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hedgehogs cannot reach saucers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours:t6:o4:1
# text = Hedgehogs cannot reach saucers
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	saucers	saucer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **reach** | can | Hedgehogs | saucers |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent saucer=Theme |

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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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