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Test 11 · ★★ · Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunt…

«wild dogs sneezing before a hunt, they got colds?» What is going on?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wild dogs · What happens: sneeze, get, go on · To what, where: colds

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 240 «Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together» 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: «wild dogs sneezing before a hunt, they got colds?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 dogs	punct
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dogs	amod
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 got	nsubj
4	sneezing	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 dogs	acl
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 hunt	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hunt	det
7	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sneezing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 got	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneeze in a quote	gerund	wild dogs not said here				before a hunt		vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get in a quote	past	wild dogs	colds					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cold=Stimulus

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 is going on?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 going	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 going	compound:prt
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	present · progressive							vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

The sneezes seem to work like a vote to set off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sneezes	det
2	sneezes	sneeze	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 seem	nsubj
3	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 work	mark
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seem	xcomp
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 vote	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 vote	det
8	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 set	mark
10	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 work	advcl
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 set	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	present	the sneezes						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	work	to-infinitive	the sneezes not said here					like a vote	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	set off	to-infinitive	the sneezes not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They are scaring away the flies that buzz round their noses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scaring	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scaring	aux
3	scaring	scare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 scaring	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flies	det
6	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scaring	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 buzz	nsubj
8	buzz	buzz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 flies	acl:relcl
9	round	round	ADP	_	11 noses	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 noses	nmod:poss
11	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 buzz	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare away	present · progressive	They	the flies				away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fly=Experiencer
2	buzz	present	the flies					round flies's noses	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They are all ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ill	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ill	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 ill	advmod
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					all, ill property	tree rules

Option 4

They smelled pepper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smelled	nsubj
2	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smelled	obj

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