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title: Your grandparents' rabbit lives alone and seems dull. What might hel… — Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Your grandparents' rabbit lives alone and seems dull. What might help it? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 12 «Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home» 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 9 · ★★ · Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home

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Your grandparents' rabbit lives alone and seems dull. What might help it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** rabbit · **What happens:** live, seem, help · **To what, where:** rabbit

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 12 «Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home» 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/12-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your grandparents' rabbit lives alone and seems dull.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:12-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home:t9:1
# text = Your grandparents' rabbit lives alone and seems dull.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Your grandparents's rabbit |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | present | Your grandparents's rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dull *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

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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 might help it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:12-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home:t9:2
# text = What might help it?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | might |  | rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A carrot every hour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:12-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home:t9:o1:1
# text = A carrot every hour
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	carrot	carrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Keeping it in the dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:12-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home:t9:o2:1
# text = Keeping it in the dark
1	Keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | gerund |  | it |  | the dark |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in dark=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A mirror in the hutch so it thinks it has a friend there all day

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:12-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home:t9:o3:1
# text = A mirror in the hutch so it thinks it has a friend there all day
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hutch	hutch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | a mirror in the hutch |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | mirror | a friend |  | there | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient |

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

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A rabbit friend and more space, with advice from a charity

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:12-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home:t9:o4:1
# text = A rabbit friend and more space, with advice from a charity
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	charity	charity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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