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description: Which of the following most accurately characterises slug pellets and rat poison in respect of other creatures? Exam question 3 of lesson 72 «Keeping garden wildlife safe» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Exam question 3 · Keeping garden wildlife safe

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Which of the following most accurately characterises slug pellets and rat poison in respect of other creatures?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** follow, characteris, respect · **To what, where:** slug pellets, other creatures

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 72 «Keeping garden wildlife safe» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe:e3:1
# text = Which of the following most accurately characterises slug pellets and rat poison in respect of other creatures?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	slug	slug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	pellets	pellet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **characteris** | present |  | slug pellets and rat poison in respect of other creatures |  |  |  | accurately *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **respect** |  |  | other creatures |  |  |  |  | nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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They are harmful solely to slugs and rats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe:e3:o1:1
# text = They are harmful solely to slugs and rats
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	harmful	harmful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	solely	solely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	slugs	slug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | They |  |  |  |  | to slugs and rats; harmful, solely *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They are harmful only when consumed by birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe:e3:o2:1
# text = They are harmful only when consumed by birds
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	harmful	harmful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:agent	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | They |  |  |  |  | harmful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **consume** | participle | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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They may kill pets and wildlife, not only slugs and rats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe:e3:o3:1
# text = They may kill pets and wildlife, not only slugs and rats
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	wildlife	wildlife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	slugs	slug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | may | They | pets and wildlife |  |  |  | slugs and rats *obl* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They are harmless to any animal larger than a rat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe:e3:o4:1
# text = They are harmless to any animal larger than a rat
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | They |  |  |  |  | to any animal; harmless *property* | tree rules |

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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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