Test 4 · ★ · Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and staying safe

«that dog growled at my little bro, smack it so it learns» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog · What happens: growl, smack, learn, be · To what, where: dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	_	4 growled	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 growled	nsubj
4	growled	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 bro	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bro	nmod:poss
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bro	amod
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 growled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 smack	punct
10	smack	smack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 growled	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 smack	obj
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 learns	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 learns	nsubj
14	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 growled	conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 learns	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 learns	ccomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 growled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	growl in a quote	past	that dog		at my little bro	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at bro=Stimulus
2	smack in a quote	infinitive	that dog not said here	dog		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	learn in a quote	present	dog			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present			right 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

Yes, then it will never growl again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 growl	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 growl	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 growl	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 growl	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 growl	advmod
7	growl	growl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 growl	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not growl	future	it				then; again		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, the growl is a warning; keep children away from its food bowl

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 warning	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 growl	det
4	growl	growl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 warning	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 warning	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 warning	det
7	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 keep	punct
9	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 warning	parataxis
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keep	obj
11	away	away	ADV	_	9 keep	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 bowl	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 bowl	nmod:poss
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bowl	compound
15	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the growl	a warning					tree rules
2	keep	infinitive		children				away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme

Option 3

No, just give it more food until it is too full to care

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 give	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 give	advmod
4	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	obj
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 food	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 full	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 full	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 full	cop
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 full	advmod
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 give	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 care	mark
14	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 full	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	it		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient food=Theme
2	is	present	it		full property	tree rules
3	care	to-infinitive				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Yes, smacking stops all bites, because the dog learns who is boss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 stops	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	smacking	smacking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stops	nsubj
4	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 bites	det
6	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stops	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 learns	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 learns	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 learns	nsubj
11	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stops	conj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 boss	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 boss	cop
14	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 learns	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stop	present	smacking	all bites	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality bite=Eventuality
2	learn	present	the dog		vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		boss	tree rules

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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