Test 10 · ★ · The vet

«I wanna be a vet, how hard can it be, I love my dog» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, vet · What happens: be, love · To what, where: vet, dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 227 «The vet» 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	_	6 vet	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 vet	nsubj
3	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 vet	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 vet	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 vet	det
6	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hard	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 hard	advmod
9	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 vet	advmod
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 be	aux
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 be	nsubj
12	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hard	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 love	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 love	nsubj
15	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 vet	parataxis
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 dog	nmod:poss
17	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 love	obj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 love	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 right	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 right	cop
21	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 love	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 vet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	infinitive	I	a vet	hard property	tree rules
2	can in a quote	can	vet			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	love in a quote	present	I	my dog		tree rules
4	is	present			right 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

You can start next week without any study at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 start	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 week	amod
5	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 start	obj
6	without	without	ADP	_	8 study	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 study	det
8	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 start	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 start	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	can	You			all	week	without any study	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Loving dogs is all you need

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dogs	amod
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 need	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	6 need	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 need	nsubj
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Loving dogs					all, need property	tree rules

Option 3

Vets only need to learn about dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vets	vet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 need	advmod
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 learn	mark
5	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 need	xcomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 dogs	case
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Vets						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	learn not said to happen	to-infinitive	Vets not said here					about dogs	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about dog=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Vets study for years and learn about many species

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vets	vet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 study	nsubj
2	study	study	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 years	case
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 study	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 learn	cc
6	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 study	conj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 species	case
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 species	amod
9	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	study	present	Vets				year		vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	learn	present	Vets not said here					about many species	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about species=Topic

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