Test 6 · ★ · Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bee…

«shut up and walk, it's just a stinky post» What is the dog really doing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, it, dog · What happens: shut up, walk, be · To what, where: stinky post

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 232 «Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines» 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	_	2 shut	punct
2	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 shut	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 walk	cc
5	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 shut	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 post	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 post	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 post	cop
9	just	just	ADV	_	12 post	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 post	det
11	stinky	stinky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 post	amod
12	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shut	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 post	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 doing	obj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 doing	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dog	det
17	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 doing	nsubj
18	really	really	ADV	_	19 doing	advmod
19	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 shut	ccomp
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shut up in a quote	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	walk in a quote	infinitive	you not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a in a quote	present	it	a stinky post		tree rules
4	is	present	the dog		do 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

Checking whether the post is warm enough for it to lie down next to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Checking	check	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 warm	csubj
2	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	4 post	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 post	det
4	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Checking	advcl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 warm	cop
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 warm	advmod
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 lie	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lie	nsubj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 lie	mark
11	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 warm	advcl
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 lie	compound:prt
13	next	next	ADV	_	11 lie	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	11 lie	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	check	gerund			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Checking	enough, warm property	tree rules
3	lie down	to-infinitive	post	next property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Smelling for rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 rain	case
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Smelling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	gerund						for rain	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Trying to eat the post

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 eat	mark
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Trying	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 post	det
5	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	gerund							vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive		the post					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent post=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Reading smells that say which dogs passed and how recently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 smells	amod
2	smells	smell	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 passed	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 smells	acl:relcl
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 dogs	det
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	obj
7	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 recently	cc
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 recently	advmod
10	recently	recently	ADV	_	7 passed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	read	gerund			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	Reading smells	which dogs	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dog=Topic
3	pass	past	Reading smells		vn occur-48.3-1 «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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