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title: Why might a hedgehog be inside a pile of garden rubbish in November? — Keeping garden wildlife safe · tree and pragmatics
description: Why might a hedgehog be inside a pile of garden rubbish in November? Test 6 · ★★ 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; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Keeping garden wildlife safe

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Why might a hedgehog be inside a pile of garden rubbish in November?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** hedgehog · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** pile

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 72 «Keeping garden wildlife safe» 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/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe:t6:1
# text = Why might a hedgehog be inside a pile of garden rubbish in November?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
6	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | might | a hedgehog |  |  | a pile |  | of garden rubbish in November | tree rules |

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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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It is there to keep the pile dry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe:t6:o1:1
# text = It is there to keep the pile dry
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  | there |  | dry, keep *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It is a sheltered place to rest and sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe:t6:o2:1
# text = It is a sheltered place to rest and sleep
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	sheltered	shelter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shelter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | It | a sheltered place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sleep** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Hedgehogs eat dry sticks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe:t6:o3:1
# text = Hedgehogs eat dry sticks
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Hedgehogs | dry sticks |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It is looking for the bonfire to keep warm by it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe:t6:o4:1
# text = It is looking for the bonfire to keep warm by it
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present · progressive | It |  |  |  |  | for the bonfire | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bonfire=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | by bonfire; warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by it=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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