Test 6 · ★★ · Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and…

«dog's going mental at the door, it's 5 o'clock, how'd he know» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog, it, he, best answer · What happens: go, be, know · To what, where: 5 o'clock · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 o'clock	csubj
5	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 going	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mental	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 o'clock	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 o'clock	cop
12	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 o'clock	nummod
13	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 know	advmod
16	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 know	aux
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 know	nsubj
18	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 o'clock	conj
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 know	ccomp
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 What	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 answer	det
23	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 answer	amod
24	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 What	nsubj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 o'clock	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · progressive	dog		mental property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	it	5 o'clock		tree rules
3	know in a quote	would	he			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	present	the best answer	5 o'clock		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 · ✓ the right answer

He learned the routine and reads little signs

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 learned	nsubj
2	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 routine	det
4	routine	routine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 learned	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 reads	cc
6	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 learned	conj
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 signs	amod
8	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reads	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	He	the routine					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent routine=Topic
2	read	present	He not said here	little signs					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Dogs can tell the time by looking at clocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 looking	mark
7	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tell	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 clocks	case
9	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	Dogs				time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	gerund	Dogs not said here					at clocks	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at clock=Theme

Option 3

It is pure magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 magic	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 magic	cop
3	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 magic	amod
4	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	pure magic					tree rules

Option 4

He smelled the clock

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 smelled	nsubj
2	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 clock	det
4	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smelled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	past	He	the clock					vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer clock=Stimulus

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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