Test 10 · ★★ · Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds
Your dog stares at you, you stare back and smile. What happens inside both of you?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog, you · What happens: stare, stare back, smile, happen · To what, where: both
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 192 «Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds» 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
Sentence 1: Your dog stares at you, you stare back and smile.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 dog | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stares | nsubj |
| 3 | stares | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 stares | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stare | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 stare | nsubj |
| 8 | stare | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stares | parataxis |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 stare | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 smile | cc |
| 11 | smile | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 stare | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stares | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | present | Your dog | at you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stare back | present | you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | smile | infinitive | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
Sentence 2: What happens inside both of you?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 4 both | case |
| 4 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 happens | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 both | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | both | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme inside both=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The dog feels angry at being stared at
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feels | nsubj |
| 3 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feels | xcomp |
| 5 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 7 stared | mark |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 stared | aux:pass |
| 7 | stared | stare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 feels | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 stared | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | the dog | angry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stare | gerund · passive | the dog not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme» |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Both get a rush of a bonding chemical
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 get | nsubj |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rush | det |
| 4 | rush | rush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 get | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 chemical | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 chemical | det |
| 7 | bonding | bond | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 chemical | amod |
| 8 | chemical | chemical | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rush | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Both | a rush of a bonding chemical | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rush=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bond | gerund | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | rush | a bonding chemical | nom rush «act transitive»: of=patient |
Option 3
The dog gets sleepy and nothing else happens
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gets | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 happens | cc |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 happens | nsubj |
| 7 | else | else | ADV | _ | 6 nothing | advmod |
| 8 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gets | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the dog | sleepy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | happen | present | nothing | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Only you feel anything, the dog feels nothing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 feel | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 feels | advcl |
| 4 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 feel | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dog | det |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feels | nsubj |
| 8 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 feels | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | you | anything | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | the dog | nothing | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
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