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title: Your friend says, "I touched a chick by accident, now it's doomed!"… — Birds and baby animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Your friend says, "I touched a chick by accident, now it's doomed!" What do you tell her? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 10 «Birds and baby animals» of the myths 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 3 · ★ · Birds and baby animals

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Your friend says, "I touched a chick by accident, now it's doomed!" What do you tell her?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** friend, you · **What happens:** say, touch, doom, tell · **To what, where:** chick, friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 10 «Birds and baby animals» of the myths 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/myths/10-birds-and-baby-animals/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your friend says, "I touched a chick by accident, now it's doomed!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:10-birds-and-baby-animals:t3:1
# text = Your friend says, "I touched a chick by accident, now it's doomed!"
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	chick	chick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	doomed	doom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | present | Your friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **touch** *in a quote* | past | Your friend *= friend* | a chick |  |  |  | by accident | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent chick=Experiencer by accident=Theme |
| 3 | **doom** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | friend |  |  | now |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What do you tell her?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:10-birds-and-baby-animals:t3:2
# text = What do you tell her?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | you |  | chick |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Wash the chick with soap to remove your smell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:10-birds-and-baby-animals:t3:o1:1
# text = Wash the chick with soap to remove your smell
1	Wash	wash	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	chick	chick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	remove	remove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | imperative | you *not said here* | the chick |  |  |  | with soap | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent chick=Patient with soap=Instrument |
| 2 | **remove** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | your smell |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Theme |
| 3 | **smell** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Its parents won't smell you; but leave it now so they can come back

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:10-birds-and-baby-animals:t3:o2:1
# text = Its parents won't smell you; but leave it now so they can come back
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
12	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **smell** | future | Its parents | you |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 2 | **leave** | infinitive | Its parents *not said here* | it |  |  | now |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **come back** | can | parents *= parent* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, it's doomed forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:10-birds-and-baby-animals:t3:o3:1
# text = Yes, it's doomed forever
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	doomed	doom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **doom** | present · passive |  | it |  |  |  | forever *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Paint it so the mum doesn't notice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:10-birds-and-baby-animals:t3:o4:1
# text = Paint it so the mum doesn't notice
1	Paint	paint	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **notice** | present · do-support | the mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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