Test 10 · ★ · Wolves and dogs
A dog has been trained to find people buried in snow after an avalanche. Which sense does it use most?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog, sense · What happens: train, find, bury, use · To what, where: dog, people, snow, most
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 24 «Wolves and dogs» 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: A dog has been trained to find people buried in snow after an avalanche.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trained | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trained | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 trained | aux:pass |
| 5 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 trained | xcomp |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 find | obj |
| 9 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 people | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 snow | case |
| 11 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buried | obl |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 avalanche | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 avalanche | det |
| 14 | avalanche | avalanche | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buried | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 trained | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | train | present · perfect · passive | a dog | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | a dog not said here | people | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bury | participle | people not said here | snow | after a avalanche | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in snow=Destination |
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: Which sense does it use most?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 sense | det |
| 2 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 use | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 use | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 use | nsubj |
| 5 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 use | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · do-support | which sense | most | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Smell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Hearing only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 1 Hearing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
Sight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Taste
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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