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Test 10 · Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?

«shut up and stop growling, Rex!» Why is it wiser to leave a growling dog alone?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, it · What happens: shut up, stop, growl, be, leave · To what, where: Rex, growling dog

This is test 10 of lesson 121 «Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?» of the biology 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.

The question

Sentence 1: «shut up and stop growling, Rex!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct
2	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 shut	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 stop	cc
5	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shut	conj
6	growling	growl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stop	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Rex	punct
8	Rex	Rex	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 shut	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut up in a quote	imperative	you not said here	Rex					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	stop in a quote	present	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	growl in a quote	gerund	you not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: Why is it wiser to leave a growling dog alone?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 wiser	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wiser	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wiser	nsubj
4	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 leave	mark
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wiser	csubj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dog	det
8	growling	growling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dog	compound
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leave	obj
10	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 leave	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wiser	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					wise property	tree rules
2	leave	to-infinitive		a growling dog				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The growl is a useful warning before a bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 growl	det
2	growl	growl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 warning	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 warning	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 warning	det
5	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 warning	amod
6	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 bite	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bite	det
9	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 warning	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the growl	a useful warning			before a bite		tree rules

Option 2

It will stop being hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stop	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 hungry	cop
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	future	It						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	gerund						hungry property	tree rules

Option 3

Growling means the dog is laughing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Growling	growling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laughing	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 laughing	aux
6	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Growling						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	laugh	present · progressive	the dog						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Growling means it wants a hug

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Growling	growling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wants	nsubj
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hug	det
6	hug	hug	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wants	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Growling						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	present	Growling	a hug					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hug=Theme

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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