Test 10 · ★★ · Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye

«my dog died and I can't stop crying, is that weird» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog, I, that, best answer · What happens: die, not stop, cry, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 328 «Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye» 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	_	4 died	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dog	nmod:poss
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stop	cc
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 stop	nsubj
7	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 stop	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 stop	advmod
9	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 died	conj
10	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stop	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 weird	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 weird	cop
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 weird	nsubj
14	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 died	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 weird	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 died	parataxis
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 What	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 answer	det
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 answer	amod
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 What	nsubj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 died	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	die in a quote	past	my dog		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	not stop in a quote	can	I		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	cry speech: express in a quote	gerund	I not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	that	weird property	tree rules
5	is a	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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, you should forget it at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 forget	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 forget	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 forget	aux
5	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forget	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 forget	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	should	you	it					tree rules

Option 2

Yes, people should not cry about pets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 cry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cry	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cry	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 cry	advmod
6	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 pets	case
8	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cry speech: express	should	people					about pets	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about pet=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, missing a pet is normal because it was family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 normal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 missing	punct
3	missing	miss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 normal	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pet	det
5	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 missing	obj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 normal	cop
7	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	11 family	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 family	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 family	cop
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 normal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	miss	gerund		a pet		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pet=Stimulus
2	is	present	missing		normal property	tree rules
3	is	past	pet		because family	tree rules

Option 4

Only small children cry about pets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 children	advmod
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 children	amod
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cry	nsubj
4	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 pets	case
6	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present	small children					about pets	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about pet=Topic

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