Test 8 · ★★ · Cartoon pets and animal myths put right

«my dog buried a bone in the garden and now he can't find it lol» Is that normal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog · What happens: bury, not find, be · To what, where: bone, garden · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 228 «Cartoon pets and animal myths put right» 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	_	4 buried	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dog	nmod:poss
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buried	nsubj
4	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 normal	csubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bone	det
6	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buried	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 garden	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 garden	det
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buried	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 find	cc
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 find	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 find	nsubj
13	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 find	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 find	advmod
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 buried	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 find	obj
17	lol	lol	INTJ	_	15 find	discourse
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 buried	punct
19	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 normal	cop
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 normal	mark
21	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 normal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury in a quote	past	my dog	a bone	the garden			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bone=Theme in garden=Destination
2	not find in a quote	can	dog	bone		now		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	is	present					normal 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

Yes, dogs bury food for later and may forget the place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 bury	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bury	nsubj
4	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bury	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 later	case
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 bury	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 forget	cc
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 forget	aux
10	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bury	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 place	det
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	present	dogs	food				late property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
2	forget	may	dogs not said here	the place					tree rules

Option 2

No, dogs always remember every bone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 remember	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 remember	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 remember	advmod
5	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 bone	det
7	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remember	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	dogs	every bone				always property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent bone=Theme

Option 3

Yes, because the bone melted away in the soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 bone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bone	punct
3	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	5 bone	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bone	det
5	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bone	acl
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 melted	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 soil	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 soil	det
10	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 melted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt away	participle		the bone not said here		the soil		away property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

No, dogs never bury food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 dogs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bury	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 bury	advmod
5	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bury	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bury	present	dogs	food					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

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