Test 6 · ★★★ · Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs

«my mate reckons dogs can fly helicopters like Skye» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, dogs · What happens: reckon, fly, be · To what, where: helicopters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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	_	4 reckons	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mate	nmod:poss
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	nsubj
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fly	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fly	aux
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reckons	ccomp
8	helicopters	helicopter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fly	obj
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 Skye	case
10	Skye	Skye	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 helicopters	nmod
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 fly	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fly	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reckon in a quote	present	my mate			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	fly in a quote	can	dogs	helicopters	like Skye	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location helicopter=Theme
3	is	present			right property	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

Yes, but only in Italy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 Italy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 Italy	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 Italy	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Italy	case
6	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, small dogs fly them in rescues, after a few years of training with a pilot

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 fly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fly	punct
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dogs	amod
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fly	nsubj
5	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fly	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 rescues	case
8	rescues	rescue	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fly	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 years	punct
10	after	after	ADP	_	13 years	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 years	det
12	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 years	amod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fly	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 training	case
15	training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 years	nmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 pilot	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pilot	det
18	pilot	pilot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	small dogs	them = they		rescues	year	with a pilot	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent they=Theme in rescue=Location

Option 3

No, dogs are scared of helicopters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scared	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 helicopters	case
7	helicopters	helicopter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scared	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No dog can fly one; some dogs ride in rescue helicopters with handlers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fly	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	aux
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 fly	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 ride	punct
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 dogs	det
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ride	nsubj
9	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 helicopters	case
11	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 helicopters	compound
12	helicopters	helicopter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ride	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 handlers	case
14	handlers	handler	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ride	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	can	no dog	one					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme
2	ride	present	some dogs			rescue helicopters		with handlers	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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