Test 9 · ★ · Kindness to wild animals

«there's a dog chained in next door's yard all day every day, none of my business tho» What is kindest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog · What happens: be, chain · To what, where: dog

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 226 «Kindness to wild animals» 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 's	punct
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 's	expl
3	's	be	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 's	nsubj
6	chained	chain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 dog	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 yard	case
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 door	amod
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 yard	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 door	case
11	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chained	obl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chained	obl:unmarked
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chained	obl:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 none	punct
17	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	5 dog	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 business	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 business	nmod:poss
20	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 none	nmod
21	tho	tho	X	ExtPos=PROPN	20 business	appos
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 tho	punct
23	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 kindest	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 kindest	cop
25	kindest	kind	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 tho	goeswith
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 's	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	a dog		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	chain in a quote	participle		a dog not said here		day	in next door's yard	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	is	present					kind 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell an adult, who can contact an animal welfare charity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 contact	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 contact	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 contact	aux
7	contact	contact	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	ccomp
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 charity	det
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 welfare	compound
10	welfare	welfare	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 charity	compound
11	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 contact	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic
2	contact	can		a welfare charity					tree rules

Option 2

Climb over and set it free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	over	over	ADV	_	1 Climb	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 set	cc
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Climb	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 set	obj
6	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 set	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb over	imperative	you not said here					over property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	set	infinitive	you not said here	it				free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result

Option 3

Throw it food over the fence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obj
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obj
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 fence	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fence	det
6	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	it		the fence			tree rules

Option 4

Ignore it, dogs love being alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 love	punct
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 love	nsubj
5	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ignore	parataxis
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 love	xcomp
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 being	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	it					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	love	present	dogs						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

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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