Test 2 · ★ · Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and staying safe

«Bella keeps yawning at the vet, she's just sleepy lol» What is more likely?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bella · What happens: keep, yawn, be · To what, where: vet

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 194 «Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and staying safe» 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	_	3 keeps	punct
2	Bella	Bella	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 likely	advcl
4	yawning	yawn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keeps	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 vet	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 vet	det
7	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yawning	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sleepy	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sleepy	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sleepy	cop
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 sleepy	advmod
12	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keeps	parataxis
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	12 sleepy	discourse
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 likely	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 likely	cop
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 likely	advmod
18	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 likely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	keep in a quote	present	Bella			tree rules
2	yawn in a quote	gerund	Bella not said here	the vet		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	Bella		sleepy property	tree rules
4	is	present			likely property	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.

The options

Option 1

She stayed up all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 stayed	compound:prt
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay up	past	She				night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She is nervous, and yawning is a calming signal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nervous	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 nervous	cop
3	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 signal	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 signal	cc
6	yawning	yawning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 signal	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 signal	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 signal	det
9	calming	calming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 signal	amod
10	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nervous	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					nervous property	tree rules
2	is a	present	yawning	a calming signal					tree rules

Option 3

Yawning means she is hungry and wants her dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yawning	yawning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hungry	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hungry	cop
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wants	cc
7	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	conj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dinner	nmod:poss
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wants	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Yawning			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Yawning		hungry property	tree rules
3	want	present	Yawning not said here	Yawning's dinner		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dinner=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Dogs yawn only when they are bored, and the vet's is boring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 yawn	nsubj
2	yawn	yawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 bored	advmod
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 bored	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bored	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bored	cop
7	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 yawn	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 boring	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 boring	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 vet	det
11	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 boring	nsubj
12	's	's	PART	_	11 vet	case
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 boring	cop
14	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 yawn	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	yawn	present	Dogs		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Dogs = dog	bored property	tree rules
3	is	present	the vet	boring property	tree rules

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