Test 9 · ★★ · Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and…

What would happen if you pointed at a hidden ball for a wolf instead of a dog?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, point · To what, where: hidden ball

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 pointed	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 pointed	nsubj
6	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 ball	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ball	det
9	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ball	amod
10	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pointed	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 wolf	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wolf	det
13	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ball	nmod
14	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	17 dog	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 instead	fixed
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 dog	det
17	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pointed	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	point a condition, not said to happen	past	you			a hidden ball for a wolf		instead a dog	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

The wolf would usually find it hard to follow the point

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
4	usually	usually	ADV	_	5 find	advmod
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 find	obj
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 find	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 follow	mark
9	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hard	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 point	det
11	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 follow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	the wolf	it				hard, usually property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	follow	to-infinitive		the point					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Theme

Option 2

The wolf would point back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 point	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 point	aux
4	point	point	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 point	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point back	would	the wolf						vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The wolf would bring you the ball

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bring	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bring	aux
4	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 bring	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ball	det
7	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	would	the wolf	the ball	you				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination ball=Theme

Option 4

The wolf would find it much faster than any dog ever could

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	obj
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 faster	advmod
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 find	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 dog	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 faster	obl
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 could	advmod
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 faster	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	the wolf	it				fast property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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