Test 3 · ★★ · How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces

«the dog went mad at my backpack and the biscuit was in a sealed bag inside, how???» What explains it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog, biscuit · What happens: go, seal, be, explain · To what, where: backpack, sealed bag, biscuit

This is test 3 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: «the dog went mad at my backpack and the biscuit was in a sealed bag inside, how???»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 backpack	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 backpack	nmod:poss
8	backpack	backpack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bag	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 biscuit	det
11	biscuit	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bag	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bag	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 bag	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bag	det
15	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 bag	amod
16	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	conj
17	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ???	punct
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 ???	advmod
20	???	???	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	past	the dog	my backpack	inside, mad property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at backpack=Location
2	seal in a quote	participle				vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	is in a quote	past	the biscuit	a sealed bag		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.

Sentence 2: What explains it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 explains	nsubj
2	explains	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 explains	obj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 explains	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	present		biscuit					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It heard the biscuit

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 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 biscuit	det
4	biscuit	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	It	the biscuit					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer biscuit=Stimulus

Option 2

It was a lucky guess, because dogs check every bag just in case

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	5 guess	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 guess	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 guess	det
4	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 guess	amod
5	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 check	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 check	mark
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 check	nsubj
9	check	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 guess	parataxis
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 bag	det
11	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 check	obj
12	just	just	ADV	_	14 case	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 case	case
14	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 check	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a lucky guess					tree rules
2	check	present	dogs	every bag		case			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme

Option 3

The bag was see-through to dogs, because dogs see through plastic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 through	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 through	cop
4	see	see	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 through	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 through	punct
6	through	thorough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 dogs	case
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 through	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 see	mark
11	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 see	nsubj
12	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 through	parataxis
13	through	through	ADP	_	14 plastic	case
14	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the bag					to dogs; thorough property	tree rules
2	see	present	dogs			plastic			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A dog smells many thousands of times better than we do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smells	nsubj
3	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thousands	amod
5	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 better	obl:unmarked
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 times	case
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thousands	nmod
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 smells	xcomp
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 do	mark
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
11	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 better	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	a dog					good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	do	present	we						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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