Test 11 · ★★ · Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye

Why does a deaf dog need hand signals instead of shouting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, need, shout · To what, where: deaf dog, hand signals

This is test 11 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 need	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dog	det
4	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dog	amod
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 signals	compound
8	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	obj
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	11 shouting	mark
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 need	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	do	present	a deaf dog	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Eventuality
2	need	present	hand signals	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot signal=Theme
3	shout speech: express	gerund		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Hand signals make it run faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 signals	compound
2	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	obj
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	xcomp
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Hand signals	it					tree rules
2	run	infinitive						fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Shouting makes its hearing come back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hearing	nmod:poss
4	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	xcomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	shout speech: express	gerund			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present		its hearing	tree rules
3	come back	present	its hearing not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hear		its = it		nom hearing «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Dogs only understand shouting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 understand	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 understand	advmod
3	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	shouting	shouting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 understand	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	present	Dogs	shouting					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer shouting=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It cannot hear words but can see the signals

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 hear	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hear	advmod
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hear	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 see	cc
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hear	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 signals	det
10	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	can	It	words					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	see	can		the signals					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer signal=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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