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Test 9 · ★★ · How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces

Your brother shouts at the dog over a mess the cat made, and the dog puts its ears back and looks away. What does this show?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, cat, dog, this · What happens: shout, make, put back, look away, show · To what, where: mess, ears

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: Your brother shouts at the dog over a mess the cat made, and the dog puts its ears back and looks away.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shouts	nsubj
3	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 dog	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shouts	obl
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 mess	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mess	det
9	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shouts	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cat	det
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	nsubj
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mess	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 puts	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 puts	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dog	det
16	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 puts	nsubj
17	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shouts	parataxis
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 ears	nmod:poss
19	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 puts	obj
20	back	back	ADV	_	17 puts	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 looks	cc
22	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 puts	conj
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 looks	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shouts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	Your brother			a mess		at the dog	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	past	the cat	a mess not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mess=Product
3	put back	present	the dog	dog's ears					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ear=Goal
4	look away	present	the dog not said here					away property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: What does this show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 show	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · do-support	this						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The dog is about to bite

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 about	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 about	cop
4	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bite	mark
6	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 about	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the dog					about property	tree rules
2	bite	to-infinitive	the dog not said here						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The dog did the mess and remembers doing it

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	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mess	det
5	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 remembers	cc
7	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
8	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 remembers	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 doing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the dog	the mess					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mess=Eventuality
2	remember	present	the dog not said here						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	do	gerund	the dog not said here	mess					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The dog's look reacts to the shouting, not to guilt

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 look	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dog	case
4	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reacts	nsubj
5	reacts	react	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 shouting	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shouting	det
8	shouting	shouting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reacts	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 guilt	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 guilt	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 guilt	case
12	guilt	guilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shouting	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	react	present	the dog's look					to the shouting and guilt	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to shouting=Theme

Option 4

The dog is laughing at your brother and trying to hide it

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 laughing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 laughing	aux
4	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 brother	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brother	nmod:poss
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughing	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 trying	cc
9	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 laughing	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 hide	mark
11	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 trying	xcomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present · progressive	the dog					at your brother	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	try	gerund	the dog not said here						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	hide not said to happen	to-infinitive	the dog not said here	dog					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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