--- title: You want to buy your dog Max a ball that's easy to spot on green gra… — Pets and farm animals · tree and pragmatics description: You want to buy your dog Max a ball that's easy to spot on green grass. Which colour is best for him? Test 3 · ★ 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/t3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/) / [Pets and farm animals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★ · Pets and farm animals You want to buy your dog Max a ball that's easy to spot on green grass. Which colour is best for him? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** You, ball, colour · **What happens:** want, buy, be, spot · **To what, where:** ball, dog, green grass This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* You want to buy your dog Max a ball that's easy to spot on green grass. ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:7-pets-and-farm-animals:t3:1 # text = You want to buy your dog Max a ball that's easy to spot on green grass. 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 Max Max PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 acl:relcl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 spot spot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | present | You | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **buy** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | a ball | your dog | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent dog=Beneficiary ball=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | a ball | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **spot** | to-infinitive | a ball *not said here* | | | green grass | | | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | 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. *Sentence 2:* Which colour is best for him? ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:7-pets-and-farm-animals:t3:2 # text = Which colour is best for him? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | which colour | | | | | for Max; good *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Red ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:7-pets-and-farm-animals:t3:o1:1 # text = Red 1 Red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Orange ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:7-pets-and-farm-animals:t3:o2:1 # text = Orange 1 Orange orange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Green ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:7-pets-and-farm-animals:t3:o3:1 # text = Green 1 Green green NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Blue ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:7-pets-and-farm-animals:t3:o4:1 # text = Blue 1 Blue Blue ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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