Test 2 · ★★ · Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today

«dog keeps yawning and licking his lips when my little brother sits on him, he's just tired lol» What is happening?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog, little brother, brother · What happens: keep, yawn, lick, sit, be, happen · To what, where: lips

This is test 2 · ★★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	yawning	yawn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keeps	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 licking	cc
6	licking	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 yawning	conj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lips	nmod:poss
8	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 licking	obj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 sits	advmod
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 brother	nmod:poss
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 brother	amod
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sits	nsubj
13	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 licking	advcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sits	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tired	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tired	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 tired	cop
19	just	just	ADV	_	20 tired	advmod
20	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keeps	advcl
21	lol	lol	INTJ	_	20 tired	discourse
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 tired	punct
23	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 happening	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 happening	aux
25	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 keeps	xcomp
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep in a quote	present	dog			tree rules
2	yawn in a quote	gerund	dog not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lick in a quote	gerund	dog not said here	dog's lips		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lip=Source
4	sit in a quote	present	my little brother		on dog	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on he=Location
5	is in a quote	present	brother		tired property	tree rules
6	happen	present · progressive				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

He is hungry

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	3 hungry	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

He is sleepy and happy and likes being sat on by kids

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	3 sleepy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sleepy	cop
3	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 happy	cc
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sleepy	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 likes	cc
7	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sleepy	conj
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sat	aux:pass
9	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 likes	xcomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 sat	compound:prt
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 kids	case
12	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	He	sleepy property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here		tree rules
3	like	present	He not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	sit on not said to happen	gerund · passive	kids		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The dog is uneasy and warning; lift your brother off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 uneasy	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 uneasy	cop
4	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 warning	cc
6	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 uneasy	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 uneasy	punct
8	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 uneasy	conj
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brother	nmod:poss
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lift	obj
11	off	off	ADP	_	8 lift	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the dog					uneasy property	tree rules
2	lift off	infinitive	the dog not said here	your brother					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme

Option 4

He wants your brother to sit on him even more

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 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 brother	nmod:poss
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sit	mark
6	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sit	obl
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 more	advmod
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 sit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	He	your brother					tree rules
2	sit not said to happen	to-infinitive	your brother not said here					on him = he	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on he=Location

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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