Test 6 · ★★ · How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces

«mum, the dog's already at the door and I can't even hear the car» Why?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: I · What happens: not hear · To what, where: car

This is test 6 · ★★ 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 mum	punct
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 door	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 door	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 dog	case
7	already	already	ADV	_	10 door	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mum	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hear	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 hear	nsubj
13	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 hear	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 hear	advmod
15	even	even	ADV	_	16 hear	advmod
16	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 mum	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 car	det
18	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hear	obj
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 car	punct
20	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	16 hear	advmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 mum	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear in a quote	can	I	the car					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus

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

The dog is psychic

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	4 psychic	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 psychic	cop
4	psychic	psychic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the dog					psychic property	tree rules

Option 2

It smelled mum coming through the walls and the closed windows

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 smelled	nsubj
2	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smelled	obj
4	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 mum	acl
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 walls	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 walls	det
7	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 coming	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 windows	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 windows	det
10	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 windows	amod
11	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 walls	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	smell	past	It	mum		vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mum=Stimulus
2	come	gerund	mum not said here		the walls and the closed windows	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through wall=Initial_Location
3	close	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

The dog just sits there by the door all day long, every single day

The tree, 14 words

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	4 sits	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 sits	advmod
4	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sits	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sits	obl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 long	obl:unmarked
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 sits	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 day	punct
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
14	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 day	amod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sits	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	the dog			there	day	by the door; long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Dogs hear quieter sounds and know the sound of our engine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hear	nsubj
2	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quieter	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 sounds	amod
4	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hear	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 know	cc
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hear	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sound	det
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 know	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 engine	case
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 engine	nmod:poss
11	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sound	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	Dogs	quieter sounds					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
2	know	infinitive	Dogs not said here	the sound of our engine					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus

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