Test 12 · ★ · Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs

Which job matches a dog that refuses to cross the road when a car is coming?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: job, dog, car · What happens: match, refuse, not cross, come · To what, where: dog, road

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 196 «Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 job	det
2	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 matches	nsubj
3	matches	match	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 matches	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 refuses	nsubj
7	refuses	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dog	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 cross	mark
9	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 refuses	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 road	det
11	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cross	obj
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 coming	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 car	det
14	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 coming	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 coming	aux
16	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 cross	advcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 matches	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	match	present	which job	a dog	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient
2	refuse	present	a dog		vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not cross	to-infinitive	a dog not said here	the road	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient
4	come	present · progressive	a car		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Guide dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dog	compound
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Sled dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sled	sled	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dog	compound
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Sniffer dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sniffer	Sniffer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 dog	compound
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Herding dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Herding	herd	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Herding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	herd	gerund		dog					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dog=Patient

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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