Test 7 · ★★ · Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe…

«heard a dog barking in the woods at midnight, nobody's dog was out» What could it be?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog · What happens: hear out, bark, be · To what, where: dog, woods · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 318 «Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer» 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	_	2 heard	punct
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
5	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 heard	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 woods	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woods	det
8	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 barking	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 midnight	case
10	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 barking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 out	punct
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 dog	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 nobody	case
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 out	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 out	cop
16	out	out	ADP	_	2 heard	compound:prt
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 be	obj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 be	aux
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 be	nsubj
21	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 heard	ccomp
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	hear out in a quote	past		a dog			tree rules
2	bark in a quote	gerund			the woods	midnight	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	can	could	dog				vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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

A muntjac or a roe deer, which both bark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 muntjac	det
2	muntjac	muntjac	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 deer	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 deer	det
5	roe	roe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deer	compound
6	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 muntjac	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bark	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 bark	nsubj
9	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	10 bark	det
10	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 muntjac	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark		a muntjac or a roe deer and both bark						tree rules

Option 2

A moose singing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 moose	det
2	moose	moose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 moose	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund	a moose not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

A rabbit growling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rabbit	det
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	growling	growl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 rabbit	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	growl	gerund	a rabbit not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A wolf in disguise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 disguise	case
4	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wolf	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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