Test 11 · ★★★ · Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs

«why do working dogs go so mad for their toy at the end» What is the reason?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: working dogs · What happens: work, go, be · To what, where: end, reason

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 140 «Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 working	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 working	aux
4	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 dogs	amod
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 reason	advcl
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 mad	advmod
8	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	xcomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 toy	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 toy	nmod:poss
11	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mad	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 end	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 end	det
14	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 reason	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 reason	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 reason	det
19	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	work in a quote	present · do-support					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go in a quote	present	working dogs		at the end	mad property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at end=Location
3	is a	present		the reason			tree rules

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They are scared of the toy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 toy	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 toy	det
6	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					of the toy; scared property	tree rules

Option 2

The toy has food inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 toy	det
2	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	3 has	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the toy	food				inside property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Finding the target means play with their favourite toy, so the job feels like a game

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 target	det
3	target	target	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Finding	obj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 toy	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 toy	nmod:poss
8	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 toy	amod
9	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 play	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 feels	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 feels	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 job	det
13	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feels	nsubj
14	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 means	parataxis
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 game	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 game	det
17	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feels	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	gerund		the target		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent target=Topic
2	mean	present	Finding	play	with their favourite toy	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Topic
3	feel	present	the job		like a game	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like game=Theme

Option 4

They are hungry for the toy, because working dogs are fed on toys instead of food

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hungry	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 toy	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 toy	det
6	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hungry	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fed	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 fed	mark
9	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 dogs	amod
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fed	nsubj:pass
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fed	aux:pass
12	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hungry	parataxis
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 toys	case
14	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fed	obl
15	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	17 food	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	15 instead	fixed
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	They			for the toy; hungry property	tree rules
2	work	gerund					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	feed	present · passive		working dogs	toys	instead food	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient

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