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title: skunk lifting its tail at us lol — Respecting wild animals · tree and pragmatics
description: skunk lifting its tail at us lol Test 13 · ★★ of lesson 70 «Respecting wild animals» 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 right.
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# Test 13 · ★★ · Respecting wild animals

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skunk lifting its tail at us lol

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** skunk · **What happens:** lift · **To what, where:** tail

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This is test 13 · ★★ of lesson 70 «Respecting wild animals» 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/70-respecting-wild-animals/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:70-respecting-wild-animals:t13:1
# text = skunk lifting its tail at us lol
1	skunk	skunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	lifting	lift	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
7	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | gerund | skunk *not said here* | skunk's tail |  |  |  | at us | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme at we=Destination |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Back away quietly, it may spray

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:70-respecting-wild-animals:t13:o1:1
# text = Back away quietly, it may spray
1	Back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	spray	spray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spray** | may | it |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Clap loud to scare it away fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:70-respecting-wild-animals:t13:o2:1
# text = Clap loud to scare it away fast
1	Clap	clap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	scare	scare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scare away** | to-infinitive | Clap | it |  |  |  | away, fast, loud *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Go closer to take a photo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:70-respecting-wild-animals:t13:o3:1
# text = Go closer to take a photo
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	xcomp	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a photo |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Throw a stone near its tail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:70-respecting-wild-animals:t13:o4:1
# text = Throw a stone near its tail
1	Throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | imperative | you *not said here* | a stone |  | stone's tail |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme near tail=Destination |

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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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