Test 1 · A puppy at home: the first weeks

«puppy keeps biting me, it's evil» What should he do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: puppy, he · What happens: keep, bite, be, do · To what, where: me

This is test 1 of lesson 326 «A puppy at home: the first weeks» 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	_	3 keeps	punct
2	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	biting	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keeps	xcomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 biting	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 evil	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 evil	cop
9	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keeps	xcomp
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 evil	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 do	obj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 do	aux
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 do	nsubj
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 keeps	ccomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep in a quote	present	puppy			tree rules
2	bite in a quote	gerund	puppy not said here	me		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	is in a quote	present	puppy		evil property	tree rules
4	do	should	he			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Give it away, it will never stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Give	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stop	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 stop	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 stop	advmod
8	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	imperative	you not said here	it				away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	not stop	future	it						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Shout at it and smack it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shout	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 smack	cc
5	smack	smack	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Shout	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smack	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here			it			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	smack	infinitive	you not said here	it					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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

Say «ouch» and stop the game, so it learns gentle mouths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 ouch	punct
3	ouch	ouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Say	obj
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 ouch	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stop	cc
6	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 game	det
8	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stop	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 learns	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 learns	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 learns	nsubj
12	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	parataxis
13	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mouths	amod
14	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 learns	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	ouch	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ouch=Topic
2	stop	infinitive	you not said here	the game	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality game=Eventuality
3	learn	present	game	gentle mouths	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Topic

Option 4

Let it bite harder and harder, so it grows up tough and brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 bite	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 harder	cc
6	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 harder	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grows	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 grows	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 grows	nsubj
10	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 grows	compound:prt
12	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grows	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 brave	cc
14	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tough	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	it		tree rules
2	bite	infinitive			hard property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	grow up	present	it		tough property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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