Test 12 · ★★ · Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today

Why do people say a dog in the house should have a quiet bed nobody bothers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: people, dog, nobody · What happens: say, have, bother · To what, where: quiet bed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 292 «Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 say	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dog	nmod
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bed	det
13	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bed	amod
14	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
15	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 bothers	nsubj
16	bothers	bother	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 bed	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	people		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	should	a dog in the house	a quiet bed	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient
3	bother	present	nobody	a quiet bed not said here	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bed=Experiencer

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

A dog that can rest safely is far less likely to snap

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	10 likely	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 rest	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 rest	aux
5	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dog	acl:relcl
6	safely	safely	ADV	_	5 rest	advmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 likely	cop
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 less	advmod
9	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 likely	advmod
10	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 snap	mark
12	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 likely	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	rest	can	a dog	safely property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	a dog	less, likely property	tree rules
3	snap	to-infinitive	a dog not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Beds make dogs bark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	bark	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Beds	dogs					tree rules
2	bark	infinitive	dogs not said here						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A quiet bed stops the dog growing too big for the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bed	det
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bed	amod
3	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stops	nsubj
4	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stops	obj
7	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 dog	acl
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 big	advmod
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 growing	xcomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 big	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	a quiet bed	the dog					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality dog=Eventuality
2	grow	gerund	the dog not said here					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Dogs never sleep in houses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sleep	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 sleep	advmod
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 houses	case
5	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sleep	present	Dogs			houses			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location

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