Test 4 · ★★ · Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today
In Tom and Jerry Spike the bulldog chases Tom just because dogs hate cats. What is real?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: bulldog, dogs · What happens: chase, hate, be · To what, where: Tom, cats
This is test 4 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: In Tom and Jerry Spike the bulldog chases Tom just because dogs hate cats.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Tom | case |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 chases | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Jerry | cc |
| 4 | Jerry | Jerry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tom | conj |
| 5 | Spike | Spike | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Jerry | flat |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bulldog | det |
| 7 | bulldog | bulldog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chases | nsubj |
| 8 | chases | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 chases | obj |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 hate | advmod |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 hate | mark |
| 12 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hate | nsubj |
| 13 | hate | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 chases | advcl |
| 14 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hate | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 chases | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | present | the bulldog | Tom | Tom and Jerry | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tom=Theme in tom=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | hate | present | dogs | cats | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=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 real?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 real | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 real | cop |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 real | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | real property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Cats always chase dogs first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chase | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 chase | advmod |
| 3 | chase | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chase | obj |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 chase | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | present | Cats | dogs | always, first property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |
Option 2
Dogs chase cats only in winter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chase | nsubj |
| 2 | chase | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chase | obj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 winter | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 winter | case |
| 6 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chase | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | present | Dogs | cats | winter | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme |
Option 3
All dogs hate all cats from the day they are born, so they always fight
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 dogs | det |
| 2 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hate | nsubj |
| 3 | hate | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 cats | det |
| 5 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hate | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hate | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 born | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 born | aux:pass |
| 11 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 day | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fight | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 fight | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fight | nsubj |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 fight | advmod |
| 16 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hate | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | present | all dogs | all cats | day | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | bear | present · passive | the day not said here | dogs = dog | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fight | present | dogs = dog | always property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Many dogs and cats raised together are friends; chasing is often play
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dogs | amod |
| 2 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 friends | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 cats | cc |
| 4 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dogs | conj |
| 5 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dogs | acl |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 raised | advmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 friends | cop |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 play | punct |
| 10 | chasing | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 play | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 play | cop |
| 12 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 play | advmod |
| 13 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 friends | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | participle | Many dogs and cats not said here | together property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Many dogs and cats | friends and play | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | chase | gerund | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | play | often property | tree rules |
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