Test 3 · ★★ · Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today

«that dog's bolting at us, LEG IT» What is better?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bolting · What happens: leg, be · To what, where: bolting · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	_	5 bolting	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bolting	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 dog	case
5	bolting	bolting	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 better	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 bolting	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 LEG	punct
9	LEG	leg	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 bolting	parataxis
10	IT	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 LEG	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 bolting	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 better	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 better	cop
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 better	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leg in a quote	infinitive		bolting					tree rules
2	is	present	that dog's bolting at us					good property	tree rules

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

Do not run; stand still like a tree and look away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 run	advmod
3	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 stand	punct
5	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 run	conj
6	still	still	ADV	_	5 stand	advmod
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stand	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 look	cc
11	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 run	conj
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 look	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	not run	imperative · do-support	you not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	infinitive	you not said here	still	like a tree	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look away	infinitive	you not said here		away property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Climb the dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Climb	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	imperative	you not said here	the dog					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location dog=Theme

Option 3

Run, dogs are slow and give up after a few steps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 slow	punct
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 slow	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slow	cop
5	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Run	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 give	cc
7	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Run	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 give	compound:prt
9	after	after	ADP	_	12 steps	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 steps	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 steps	amod
12	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	dogs		slow property	tree rules
3	give up	present	you not said here	after a few steps		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Run and scream as loud as you can so the owner hears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 scream	cc
3	scream	scream	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Run	conj
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 loud	advmod
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 scream	xcomp
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 loud	obl
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hears	aux
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 hears	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 owner	det
11	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hears	nsubj
12	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Run	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	scream speech: express	infinitive	you not said here	loud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	can	the owner		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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