Test 8 · ★★ · Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds

«mixed breed dogs are always sicker than posh pedigree ones» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: breed dogs · What happens: mix, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 sicker	punct
2	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 breed	amod
3	breed	breed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dogs	compound
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sicker	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sicker	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 sicker	advmod
7	sicker	sick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 ones	case
9	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ones	amod
10	pedigree	pedigree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ones	compound
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sicker	obl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 sicker	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sicker	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sicker	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mix in a quote	participle			vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is in a quote	present	breed dogs	than posh pedigree ones; always, sick property	tree rules
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

No, mixed dogs never get ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 mixed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dogs	amod
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	participle							vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	not get	present	mixed dogs					ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, only pedigrees live long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 live	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 pedigrees	advmod
4	pedigrees	pedigree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	nsubj
5	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	pedigrees					long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yes, every mixed dog is ill, because its parents did not match

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 ill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 dog	det
4	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 dog	amod
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ill	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ill	cop
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 match	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 match	mark
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 parents	nmod:poss
11	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 match	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 match	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 match	advmod
14	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ill	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mix	participle			vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	every mixed dog	ill property	tree rules
3	not match	past · do-support	dog's parents		vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, mixed-breed dogs are often very healthy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	10 healthy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 breed	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 mixed	punct
5	breed	breed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dogs	compound
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 healthy	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 healthy	cop
8	often	often	ADV	_	10 healthy	advmod
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 healthy	advmod
10	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	participle							vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	breed dogs					healthy, often property	tree rules

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