Test 8 · ★ · Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and staying safe

What would happen if you reached straight over the head of a dog you did not know?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, reach, not know · To what, where: head, dog

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 reached	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 reached	nsubj
6	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	10 head	advmod
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 head	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 head	det
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 dog	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 dog	det
13	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 head	nmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 know	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 know	advmod
17	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 dog	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reach a condition, not said to happen	past	you	the head of a dog	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent head=Theme
3	not know	past · do-support	you	a dog not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dog=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 right answer

It might feel threatened and duck, back off or snap

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	3 feel	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	aux
3	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	threatened	threatened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feel	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 duck	cc
6	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threatened	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 back	punct
8	back	back	ADV	_	9 off	advmod
9	off	off	ADV	_	3 feel	advcl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 snap	cc
11	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 feel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	might	It					threatened property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	snap	infinitive							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It would always wag and lick

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	4 wag	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wag	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 wag	advmod
4	wag	wag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lick	cc
6	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wag	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wag	would	It					always property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	lick	infinitive							vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It would fall asleep

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	3 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fall	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	It					asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It would roll over at once

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	3 roll	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 roll	aux
3	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	over	over	ADV	_	3 roll	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 roll	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll over	would	It					over property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory

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