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Test 2 · ★ · The vet

In a cartoon a dog swallows a whole alarm clock and you can hear it ticking. What is true about real dogs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog, you, clock · What happens: swallow, hear, tick, be · To what, where: whole alarm clock, cartoon, clock

This is test 2 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon a dog swallows a whole alarm clock and you can hear it ticking.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swallows	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swallows	nsubj
6	swallows	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 clock	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 clock	amod
9	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clock	compound
10	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swallows	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hear	cc
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 hear	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 hear	aux
14	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 swallows	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hear	obj
16	ticking	tick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 hear	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 swallows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	present	a dog	a whole alarm clock		a cartoon			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Patient
2	hear	can	you	clock					tree rules
3	tick	gerund	clock not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «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.

Sentence 2: What is true about real dogs?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 dogs	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dogs	amod
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about real dogs; true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They do swallow odd things, and an X-ray can show them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swallow	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 swallow	aux
3	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swallow	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 show	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 show	cc
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ray	det
9	X	x	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ray	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 X	punct
11	ray	ray	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 show	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 show	aux
13	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 swallow	parataxis
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	present · do-support	They	odd things					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
2	show	can	a X ray	things = thing					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 2

Only cartoon dogs ever swallow objects

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 dogs	advmod
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dogs	compound
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 swallow	nsubj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 swallow	advmod
5	swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 swallow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	present	cartoon dogs	objects			ever		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Patient

Option 3

They can swallow anything at all with no harm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swallow	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 swallow	aux
3	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 swallow	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 swallow	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 harm	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 harm	det
9	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swallow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	can	They	anything		all		with no harm	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient

Option 4

Things they swallow always disappear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 disappear	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swallow	nsubj
3	swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Things	acl:relcl
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 swallow	advmod
5	disappear	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	present	Things = thing	Things not said here				always property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
2	disappear	present	Things						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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