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Test 9 · ★ · Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs

«guard dog's barking all night at the sheep field, shut it up!» What is it probably doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guard dog, you, dog · What happens: bark, shut up, do · To what, where: dog

This is test 9 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: «guard dog's barking all night at the sheep field, shut it up!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 barking	punct
2	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dog	compound
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 barking	nsubj
4	's	's	PART	_	3 dog	case
5	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 shut	advcl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 barking	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 field	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 field	det
10	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 field	compound
11	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 barking	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 barking	punct
13	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 shut	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 shut	compound:prt
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 shut	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark in a quote	gerund	guard dog				night	at the sheep field	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at field=Stimulus
2	shut up in a quote	imperative	you not said here	dog					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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.

Sentence 2: What is it probably doing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 doing	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 doing	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 doing	nsubj
4	probably	probably	ADV	_	5 doing	advmod
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · progressive	dog					probably property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Asking for its dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 dinner	case
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dinner	nmod:poss
4	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund						for its dinner	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Barking at nothing for fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 nothing	case
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Barking	obl
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 fun	case
5	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Barking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	gerund						for fun; at nothing	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at nothing=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Warning off a fox to protect the sheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warning	warn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Warning	compound:prt
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Warning	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 protect	mark
6	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Warning	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sheep	det
8	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 protect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn off speech: warn	gerund			a fox				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient
2	protect	to-infinitive			the sheep				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Beneficiary

Option 4

Calling other dogs to a party

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dogs	amod
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Calling	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 party	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 party	det
6	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Calling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	gerund		other dogs	a party				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent dog=Topic to party=Recipient

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