Test 8 · A puppy at home: the first weeks

«why's a puppy need more teeth when it grows up» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: puppy · What happens: be, grow up · To what, where: best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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	_	11 grows	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 need	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 need	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 puppy	det
5	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	nsubj
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 grows	advcl
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 teeth	amod
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	obj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 grows	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 grows	nsubj
11	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 answer	csubj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 grows	compound:prt
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 grows	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 answer	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 answer	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 answer	det
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 answer	amod
18	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	a puppy		need property	tree rules
2	grow up in a quote	present	puppy			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be speech: assert	present		the best answer		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

Old dogs need teeth to talk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dogs	amod
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 talk	mark
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 need	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Old dogs	teeth					tree rules
2	talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	teeth not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It does not, both have 28

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	2 does	nsubj
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 does	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 does	parataxis
7	28	28	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	present	It						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	both	28					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 28=Patient

Option 3

Grown dogs eat only soft food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 dogs	amod
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 soft	advmod
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	present	Grown dogs	soft food					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A bigger jaw has room for 42 grown-up teeth to eat bigger food

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 jaw	det
2	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 jaw	amod
3	jaw	jaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	11 teeth	case
7	42	42	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 teeth	nummod
8	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 teeth	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 up	punct
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 grown	compound:prt
11	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 room	nmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 eat	mark
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 has	advcl
14	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 food	amod
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	a bigger jaw	room	for 42 grown teeth	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient
2	grow up	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	eat	to-infinitive	a bigger jaw not said here	bigger food		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

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