Test 12 · ★★★ · Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs

«Dalmatian at the fire station, just looks cool or what» Why are they linked to fire stations?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dalmatian · What happens: look, link · To what, where: they

This is test 12 · ★★★ 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	_	2 Dalmatian	punct
2	Dalmatian	dalmatian	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looks	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 station	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 station	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 station	compound
6	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Dalmatian	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Dalmatian	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 looks	advmod
9	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 looks	xcomp
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 cool	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
14	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 linked	advmod
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 linked	aux:pass
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 linked	nsubj
17	linked	link	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 looks	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 stations	case
19	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stations	compound
20	stations	station	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 linked	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 looks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	present	Dalmatian at the fire station					cool property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	link	present · passive		they				to fire stations	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to station=Co-Patient

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

They can smell fire long before people can, so they ran to warn the firemen

The tree, 15 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 smell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 smell	aux
3	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smell	obj
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 smell	advmod
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 can	mark
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 can	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 smell	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ran	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 ran	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ran	nsubj
12	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 smell	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 warn	mark
14	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ran	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 firemen	det
16	firemen	fireman	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 warn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	smell	can	They	fire	long property	vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus
2	run	past	people			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	warn speech: warn	to-infinitive	people not said here	the firemen		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fireman=Recipient

Option 2

They are not afraid of flames

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	4 afraid	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 afraid	advmod
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 flames	case
6	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	They					of flames; afraid property	tree rules

Option 3

They were bred to put out fires

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 bred	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bred	aux:pass
3	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 put	mark
5	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bred	advcl
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 put	compound:prt
7	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 put	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breed	past · passive		They					tree rules
2	put out	to-infinitive		fires					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fire=Goal

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They once ran beside horse-drawn fire carts, clearing the way and calming the horses

The tree, 15 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 ran	nsubj
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 ran	advmod
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	beside	beside	ADP	_	9 carts	case
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drawn	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 horse	punct
7	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 carts	amod
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carts	compound
9	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ran	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 clearing	punct
11	clearing	clear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 ran	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 clearing	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 calming	cc
15	calming	calm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 clearing	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 horses	det
17	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 calming	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	They		drawn fire carts	once property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside cart=Trajectory
2	draw	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	clear	gerund	They not said here	the way			vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent way=Source
4	calm	gerund	They not said here	the horses			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus horse=Experiencer

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