Test 8 · ★★★ · Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs

«avalanche, dude's under the snow, can't we just poke around with sticks» Why is a dog better?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: avalanche, dog · What happens: not poke around, be

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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 avalanche	punct
2	avalanche	avalanche	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 poke	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dude	punct
4	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 avalanche	conj
5	's	's	PART	_	4 dude	case
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 snow	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snow	det
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 avalanche	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 poke	punct
10	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 poke	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 poke	advmod
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 poke	nsubj
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 poke	advmod
14	poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	around	around	ADV	_	14 poke	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 sticks	case
17	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 poke	obl
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 poke	punct
19	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	23 better	advmod
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 better	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 dog	det
22	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 better	nsubj
23	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 poke	advcl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 poke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not poke around in a quote	can	avalanche under the snow and dude					with sticks; around property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with stick=Instrument
2	is	present	a dog					good 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

Sticks always miss people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 miss	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 miss	advmod
3	miss	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 miss	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	present	Sticks	people				always property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It smells scent rising through the snow and searches in minutes what takes people hours

The tree, 15 words

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	2 smells	nsubj
2	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smells	obj
4	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 scent	acl
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 snow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snow	det
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rising	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 searches	cc
9	searches	search	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 snow	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 minutes	case
11	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 takes	obl
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 takes	nsubj
13	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 searches	acl:relcl
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 takes	obj
15	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 takes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	smell	present	It	scent				vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scent=Stimulus
2	rise	gerund	scent not said here			the snow and searches		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through snow=Location
3	take	present	searches		people		hour; minute	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument people=Destination

Option 3

Dogs can see through snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	5 snow	case
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	Dogs			snow			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Dogs can melt the snow with their warm breath and dig people out much faster than any stick

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 melt	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 melt	aux
3	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snow	det
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melt	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 breath	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 breath	nmod:poss
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 breath	amod
9	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melt	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dig	cc
11	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 melt	conj
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dig	obj
13	out	out	ADV	_	11 dig	advmod
14	much	much	ADV	_	15 faster	advmod
15	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 dig	advmod
16	than	than	ADP	_	18 stick	case
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 stick	det
18	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 faster	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	can	Dogs	the snow				with Dogs's warm breath	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent snow=Patient with breath=Instrument
2	dig out	infinitive	Dogs not said here	people				fast, out property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent people=Instrument

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