Test 12 · ★★ · Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and…
«my dog shoved my hand off the neighbour's puppy, is he jealous??» What do tests suggest?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog, tests · What happens: shove, be, suggest · To what, where: hand
This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 237 «Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?)» 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: «my dog shoved my hand off the neighbour's puppy, is he jealous??»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 shoved | 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 shoved | nsubj |
| 4 | shoved | shove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shoved | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 puppy | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 neighbour | det |
| 9 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 puppy | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 neighbour | case |
| 11 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shoved | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 jealous | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 jealous | cop |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 jealous | nsubj |
| 15 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shoved | parataxis |
| 16 | ?? | ?? | PUNCT | _ | 15 jealous | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 shoved | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shove in a quote | past | my dog | my hand | off the neighbour's puppy | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme off puppy=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | dog | jealous 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.
Sentence 2: What do tests suggest?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 suggest | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 suggest | aux |
| 3 | tests | test | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 suggest | nsubj |
| 4 | suggest | suggest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 suggest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | present · do-support | tests | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Dogs may feel a simple kind of jealousy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 feel | aux |
| 3 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kind | det |
| 5 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kind | amod |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feel | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 jealousy | case |
| 8 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | may | Dogs | a simple kind of jealousy | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme |
Option 2
He is trying to shake hands with the puppy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 trying | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 trying | aux |
| 3 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 shake | mark |
| 5 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 trying | xcomp |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shake | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 puppy | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 puppy | det |
| 9 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shake | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present · progressive | He | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | shake not said to happen | to-infinitive | He not said here | hands | with the puppy | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with puppy=Co-Patient |
Option 3
Dogs cannot feel anything like that at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 feel | advmod |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 feel | obj |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 anything | nmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 feel | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel | can | Dogs | anything | all | like that | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent anything=Theme at all=Location |
Option 4
He thinks the puppy is something good to eat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thinks | nsubj |
| 2 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 puppy | det |
| 4 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 something | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 something | cop |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 thinks | ccomp |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 something | amod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 eat | mark |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 something | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | He | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the puppy | something | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | He not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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