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title: Which pair shows a helpless baby and a ready-to-walk baby? — Mammals and how they care for their yo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which pair shows a helpless baby and a ready-to-walk baby? Test 6 of lesson 75 «Mammals and how they care for their young» of the world 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 6 · Mammals and how they care for their young

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Which pair shows a helpless baby and a ready-to-walk baby?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** pair · **What happens:** show, walk · **To what, where:** helpless baby, baby

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This is test 6 of lesson 75 «Mammals and how they care for their young» of the world 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/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:75-mammals-and-their-young:t6:1
# text = Which pair shows a helpless baby and a ready-to-walk baby?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	helpless	helpless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
14	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | which pair | a helpless baby |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent baby=Recipient |
| 2 | **walk** | infinitive |  | baby |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme baby=Trajectory |

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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 {#o1}

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A baby giraffe and a foal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:75-mammals-and-their-young:t6:o1:1
# text = A baby giraffe and a foal
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	foal	foal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A foal and a baby zebra

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:75-mammals-and-their-young:t6:o2:1
# text = A foal and a baby zebra
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	foal	foal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	zebra	zebra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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A puppy and a baby giraffe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:75-mammals-and-their-young:t6:o3:1
# text = A puppy and a baby giraffe
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	puppy	puppy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A kitten and a puppy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:75-mammals-and-their-young:t6:o4:1
# text = A kitten and a puppy
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kitten	kitten	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	puppy	puppy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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