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title: Why do people keep believing pet myths even when they love their ani… — Pets and farm animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do people keep believing pet myths even when they love their animals? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 7 «Pets and farm 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 right.
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# Test 10 · ★ · Pets and farm animals

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Why do people keep believing pet myths even when they love their animals?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** keep, believe, love · **To what, where:** believing pet myths, animals

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 7 «Pets and farm 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/7-pets-and-farm-animals/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:7-pets-and-farm-animals:t10:1
# text = Why do people keep believing pet myths even when they love their animals?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	believing	believe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
6	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	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 | **keep** | present · do-support | people | believing pet myths |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myth=Theme |
| 2 | **believe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **love** | present | people | people's animals |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Old habits and pictures make the wrong idea look normal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:7-pets-and-farm-animals:t10:o1:1
# text = Old habits and pictures make the wrong idea look normal
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	habits	habit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
10	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Old habits and pictures | the wrong idea |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive | the wrong idea *not said here* |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Animals tell them the myths are true

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:7-pets-and-farm-animals:t10:o2:1
# text = Animals tell them the myths are true
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Animals |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | the myths |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Pets like the wrong food better

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:7-pets-and-farm-animals:t10:o3:1
# text = Pets like the wrong food better
1	Pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Vets agree with all the old sayings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:7-pets-and-farm-animals:t10:o4:1
# text = Vets agree with all the old sayings
1	Vets	vet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	agree	agree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sayings	saying	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | Vets |  |  |  |  | with all old sayings | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with saying=Co-Agent |

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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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