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title: Your friend's Great Dane and your Chihuahua are both eight. Which is… — Pets and farm animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Your friend's Great Dane and your Chihuahua are both eight. Which is probably "older" in body terms? Test 4 · ★ 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.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Pets and farm animals

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Your friend's Great Dane and your Chihuahua are both eight. Which is probably "older" in body terms?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Great Dane · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** eight, body terms

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your friend's Great Dane and your Chihuahua are both eight.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:7-pets-and-farm-animals:t4:1
# text = Your friend's Great Dane and your Chihuahua are both eight.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Dane	Dane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Chihuahua	chihuahua	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	both	both	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Your friend's Great Dane and your Chihuahua | eight |  |  |  | both *property* | 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:* Which is probably "older" in body terms?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:7-pets-and-farm-animals:t4:2
# text = Which is probably "older" in body terms?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | body terms |  | old, probably *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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They're exactly the same age inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:7-pets-and-farm-animals:t4:o1:1
# text = They're exactly the same age inside
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | They | the same age |  |  |  | exactly, inside *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Neither, dogs don't age after five

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:7-pets-and-farm-animals:t4:o2:1
# text = Neither, dogs don't age after five
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	age	age	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **age** | present · do-support | dogs |  |  |  | after five | neither *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The Great Dane, big dogs age faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:7-pets-and-farm-animals:t4:o3:1
# text = The Great Dane, big dogs age faster
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Dane	Dane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	age	age	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **age** | present | the Great Dane |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Chihuahua, small dogs age faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:7-pets-and-farm-animals:t4:o4:1
# text = The Chihuahua, small dogs age faster
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Chihuahua	Chihuahua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	age	age	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **age** | present | the Chihuahua |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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