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title: Which action is unkind to animals even if you do not mean harm? — Wild animals, zoos and kindness to ani… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which action is unkind to animals even if you do not mean harm? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 71 «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to 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 wrong.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals

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Which action is unkind to animals even if you do not mean harm?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** action, you · **What happens:** be, not mean · **To what, where:** harm

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 71 «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to 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/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness:t9:1
# text = Which action is unkind to animals even if you do not mean harm?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
13	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which action |  |  |  |  | to animals; unkind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **mean** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | you | harm |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Topic |

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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 {#o1}

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Cutting drink rings before binning them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness:t9:o1:1
# text = Cutting drink rings before binning them
1	Cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	binning	bin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | gerund |  | drink rings |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ring=Product |
| 2 | **bin** | gerund |  | rings *= ring* |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Telling an adult about a hungry stray dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness:t9:o2:1
# text = Telling an adult about a hungry stray dog
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	stray	stray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | a adult |  |  | about a hungry stray dog | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient about dog=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Watching ducks quietly from a park bench

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness:t9:o3:1
# text = Watching ducks quietly from a park bench
1	Watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | gerund |  | ducks |  | a park bench |  | quietly *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Theme |

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

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Leaving fishing line lying by a pond

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness:t9:o4:1
# text = Leaving fishing line lying by a pond
1	Leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | gerund |  | fishing line |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | by a pond | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by pond=Location |

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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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