Test 9 · ★★ · Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today

«why was the Siberian fox thing a big deal, they're just foxes» What did it show?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, deal · What happens: be, show · To what, where: Siberian fox thing, foxes, big deal

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	_	7 thing	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 thing	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
5	Siberian	siberian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thing	compound
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 deal	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 deal	amod
10	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thing	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 foxes	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 foxes	nsubj
13	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 foxes	cop
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 foxes	advmod
15	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 deal	appos
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 foxes	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 show	obj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 show	aux
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 show	nsubj
20	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 deal	acl:relcl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past		the Siberian fox thing	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	they	foxes	tree rules
3	show	past · do-support	deal	a big deal	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

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

Foxes turned into real dogs, barking and all, in just one year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 dogs	case
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dogs	amod
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turned	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 barking	punct
7	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 turned	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 all	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 barking	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 year	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 year	case
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 one	advmod
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 year	nummod
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Foxes					into real dogs result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into dog=Result
2	bark	gerund	Foxes not said here						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Foxes can never be tamed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tamed	nsubj:pass
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tamed	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 tamed	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 tamed	aux:pass
5	tamed	tame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tame	can · passive		Foxes					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Breeding the tamest animals changed their behaviour and even their looks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Breeding	breed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 changed	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 animals	det
3	tamest	tame	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 animals	amod
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Breeding	obj
5	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 behaviour	nmod:poss
7	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changed	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 looks	cc
9	even	even	ADV	_	11 looks	advmod
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 looks	nmod:poss
11	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 changed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breed	gerund		the tamest animals					tree rules
2	change	past	Breeding	animals's behaviour					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent behaviour=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Wild foxes already wag their tails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 foxes	amod
2	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wag	nsubj
3	already	already	ADV	_	4 wag	advmod
4	wag	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tails	nmod:poss
6	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wag	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wag	present	Wild foxes	foxes's tails					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

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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