Test 5 · ★★ · Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today
In Scooby-Doo, Scooby talks and reads clues. What can real dogs really do?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Scooby, real dogs · What happens: talk, read, do · To what, where: Scooby Doo, clues
This is test 5 · ★★ 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 Scooby-Doo, Scooby talks and reads clues.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Doo | case |
| 2 | Scooby | Scooby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Doo | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Scooby | punct |
| 4 | Doo | Doo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 talks | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Doo | punct |
| 6 | Scooby | Scooby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 talks | nsubj |
| 7 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 reads | cc |
| 9 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 talks | conj |
| 10 | clues | clue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 reads | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 talks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | present | Scooby | Scooby Doo | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | read | present | Scooby not said here | clues | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Topic |
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 can real dogs really do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dogs | amod |
| 4 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 do | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | real dogs | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Read books
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Read | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | imperative | you not said here | books | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Solve hard mysteries all on their own, like detectives
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Solve | solve | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mysteries | amod |
| 3 | mysteries | mystery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Solve | obj |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 1 Solve | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 own | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 own | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Solve | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 detectives | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 detectives | case |
| 10 | detectives | detective | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Solve | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | solve | imperative | you not said here | hard mysteries | mysteries's own | like detectives; all property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mystery=Topic |
Option 3
Talk in full sentences if trained from a puppy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 sentences | case |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sentences | amod |
| 4 | sentences | sentence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Talk | obl |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 trained | mark |
| 6 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Talk | advcl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 puppy | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 puppy | det |
| 9 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trained | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | imperative | you not said here | full sentences | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | train a condition, not said to happen | participle | you not said here | from a puppy | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Read our faces and follow pointing, but not talk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 faces | nmod:poss |
| 3 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Read | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 follow | cc |
| 5 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Read | conj |
| 6 | pointing | point | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 follow | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 talk | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 talk | cc |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 talk | advmod |
| 10 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Read | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | imperative | you not said here | our faces | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Topic | ||||
| 2 | follow | present | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | point | gerund | you not said here | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not talk | infinitive | you not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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