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Test 7 · ★★ · How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces

A chimpanzee and a dog watch you point at one of two cups. Which is usually better at following the point?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chimpanzee, you · What happens: watch, point, be, follow · To what, where: point

This is test 7 · ★★ 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: A chimpanzee and a dog watch you point at one of two cups.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 chimpanzee	det
2	chimpanzee	chimpanzee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watch	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dog	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chimpanzee	conj
6	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 point	nsubj
8	point	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 watch	ccomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 one	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 point	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 cups	case
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 cups	nummod
13	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 watch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	infinitive	a chimpanzee and a dog						tree rules
2	point	present	you					at one of two cups	vn wink-40.3.1 «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: Which is usually better at following the point?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 better	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 better	cop
3	usually	usually	ADV	_	4 better	advmod
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 following	case
6	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 better	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 point	det
8	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 following	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 better	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						good, usually property	tree rules
2	follow	gerund		the point					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

The dog

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	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Both always guess wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 guess	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 guess	advmod
3	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 guess	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	present	Both					always, wrong property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Neither can follow pointing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	3 follow	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 follow	aux
3	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	pointing	pointing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 follow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	can		pointing				neither property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pointing=Theme

Option 4

The chimpanzee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chimpanzee	det
2	chimpanzee	chimpanzee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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