Test 6 · ★ · Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs

«snow came down the mountain and a man's under it» Which helper could find him quickest?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snow, helper · What happens: come down, find · To what, where: snow, mountain

This is test 6 · ★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mountain	det
6	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 find	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 it	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 man	case
11	under	under	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 find	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 it	punct
14	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	15 helper	det
15	helper	helper	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 find	aux
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 find	obj
19	quickest	quick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 find	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down in a quote	past	snow					down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	could	which helper	snow		mountain			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme quick=Attribute

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

A sheepdog with whistles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sheepdog	det
2	sheepdog	sheepdog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 whistles	case
4	whistles	whistle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sheepdog	nmod

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

Option 2

A line of people looking with their eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 line	det
2	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 people	case
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 line	nmod
5	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 people	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 eyes	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyes	nmod:poss
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund	people not said here					with people's eyes	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A rescue dog sniffing over the snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dog	det
2	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dog	compound
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	sniffing	sniff	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 dog	acl
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 snow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snow	det
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sniffing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sniff	gerund	a rescue dog not said here					over the snow	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over snow=Theme

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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