Test 9 · ★★★ · Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs

What would happen if an avalanche dog had a bad cold and blocked nose?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: avalanche dog · What happens: happen, have, block · To what, where: bad cold, nose

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 had	mark
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dog	det
6	avalanche	avalanche	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dog	compound
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cold	det
10	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cold	amod
11	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 blocked	cc
13	blocked	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 had	conj
14	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blocked	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a avalanche dog	a bad cold	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient
3	block	past	a avalanche dog not said here	nose	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer nose=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

It would find buried people much less well, since it searches by smell

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 find	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 find	obj
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 less	advmod
7	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 well	advmod
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 find	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 searches	punct
10	since	since	SCONJ	_	12 searches	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 searches	nsubj
12	searches	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 find	conj
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 smell	case
14	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 searches	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	would	It	buried people	well property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic
2	bury	participle				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	search	present	it		by smell	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by smell=Location

Option 2

It would find them by tasting the snow

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 find	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 find	obj
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 tasting	mark
6	tasting	taste	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 find	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snow	det
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tasting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	It	them = they					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
2	taste	gerund		the snow					vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme snow=Attribute

Option 3

It would find them faster by sight, as dogs can see through snow on clear days

The tree, 16 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	3 find	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 find	obj
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 find	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 sight	case
7	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 see	mark
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 see	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 see	aux
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 find	conj
13	through	through	ADP	_	14 snow	case
14	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 see	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 days	case
16	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 days	amod
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	It	them = they				by sight; fast property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
2	see	can	dogs			snow	day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Nothing, it searches by hearing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 searches	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 searches	nsubj
4	searches	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 hearing	case
6	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 searches	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search	present	Nothing					by hearing	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by hearing=Location

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