Test 8 · ★★ · Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today

What would happen if a dog was told off every time it growled?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog · What happens: happen, tell off, growl · To what, where: dog, time

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 told	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux:pass
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 told	compound:prt
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl:unmarked
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 growled	nsubj
13	growled	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 time	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	happen	would			time	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell off speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		a dog		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	growl	past	dog	every time not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=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.

The options

Option 1

It would turn into a calm guide dog with time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	8 dog	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dog	det
6	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dog	amod
7	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dog	compound
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 time	case
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It				time	into a calm guide dog result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into dog=Result

Option 2

It would never bite anyone ever again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bite	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bite	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 bite	advmod
4	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 bite	obj
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 bite	advmod
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 bite	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bite	would	It	anyone			ever; again		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It might stop warning and bite without warning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stop	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stop	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bite	cc
6	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	conj
7	without	without	ADP	_	8 warning	case
8	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	might	It	warning					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality warning=Eventuality
2	bite	present						without warning	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It would start to purr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 start	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 purr	mark
5	purr	purr	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 start	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	It						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	purr	to-infinitive							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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