Test 1 · ★★ · How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces

«hurry up Rex, it's just a lamppost ffs» What is Rex really doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, it, Rex · What happens: hurry up, be, do · To what, where: Rex, lamppost ffs

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 193 «How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces» 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 hurry	punct
2	hurry	hurry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 hurry	compound:prt
4	Rex	Rex	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hurry	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ffs	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ffs	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 ffs	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	11 ffs	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ffs	det
10	lamppost	lamppost	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ffs	compound
11	ffs	ffs	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hurry	obl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 ffs	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 doing	obj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 Rex	cop
15	Rex	Rex	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 doing	nsubj
16	really	really	ADV	_	17 doing	advmod
17	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 hurry	ccomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 hurry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hurry up in a quote	imperative	you not said here	Rex	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	it	a lamppost ffs	tree rules
3	is a	present		Rex	tree rules
4	do	gerund	Rex		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Looking for a bone it lost there and buried last week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 buried	csubj:pass
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 bone	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bone	det
4	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lost	nsubj
6	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bone	acl:relcl
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lost	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 buried	cc
9	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 week	amod
11	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 buried	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund					for a bone	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bone=Theme
2	lose	past	bone	a bone not said here	there			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Eventuality
3	bury	participle	Looking			week		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Admiring the lamp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Admiring	admire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lamp	det
3	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Admiring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	admire	gerund		the lamp					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lamp=Stimulus

Option 3

Waiting for the light to turn on so it can see where to go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 see	csubj
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 light	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 light	det
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Waiting	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 turn	mark
6	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Waiting	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 turn	compound:prt
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 turn	obl
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 go	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 go	mark
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 see	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund		for the light	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	turn on	to-infinitive		so light	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	see	can	Waiting		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	go	to-infinitive	Waiting not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Reading smells left by other dogs, like a newspaper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smells	nsubj
2	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 smells	xcomp
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 dogs	case
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dogs	amod
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 left	obl:agent
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 newspaper	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 newspaper	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 newspaper	det
10	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smells	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	Reading						vn see-30.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	leave	participle	Reading not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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