Test 7 · A puppy at home: the first weeks

What would happen if a puppy never met new people or traffic until it was a year old?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: puppy · What happens: happen, not meet, be · To what, where: new people

This is test 7 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	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 met	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 puppy	det
6	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 met	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 met	advmod
8	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 met	obj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 traffic	cc
12	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 people	conj
13	until	until	SCONJ	_	18 old	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 old	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 old	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 year	det
17	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 old	obl:unmarked
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 met	advcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not meet a condition, not said to happen	past	a puppy	new people or traffic			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent
3	is	past	puppy		year	old property	tree rules

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

Nothing, it would learn later just the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 learn	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 learn	aux
5	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	acl:relcl
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 learn	advmod
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 same	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 same	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 learn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	it					late, same property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It might grow up scared of them

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 grow	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 grow	compound:prt
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grow	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	might	It					scared property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It would be calmer than other dogs

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 calmer	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 calmer	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 calmer	cop
4	calmer	calm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 dogs	case
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dogs	amod
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 calmer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					than other dogs; calm property	tree rules

Option 4

It would learn to drive a car instead

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 learn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	aux
3	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 drive	mark
5	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learn	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 car	det
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drive	obj
8	instead	instead	ADV	_	5 drive	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	It						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	drive	to-infinitive		a car				instead property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme car=Trajectory

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