Test 6 · ★★ · Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye

What would happen if the family moved all the furniture while their old dog was blind?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family, old dog · What happens: happen, move, be · To what, where: furniture

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	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	_	7 moved	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 family	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 moved	nsubj
7	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 furniture	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 furniture	det
10	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 moved	obj
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 blind	mark
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 dog	nmod:poss
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dog	amod
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 blind	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 blind	cop
16	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moved	advcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	move a condition, not said to happen	past	the family	all furniture		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent furniture=Theme
3	is	past	their old dog		blind 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 · ← Mova's choice

It would stop using its nose

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 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nose	nmod:poss
6	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 using	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	It						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	use	gerund		its nose					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would bump into things, because it remembers where things were

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 bump	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bump	aux
3	bump	bump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 things	case
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bump	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 remembers	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 remembers	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 remembers	nsubj
9	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bump	conj
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 were	advmod
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 were	nsubj
12	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 remembers	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	bump	would	It	things	vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into thing=Location
2	remember	present	it		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	be	past	things		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It would see again

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 see	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	again	again	ADV	_	3 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	would	It				again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Nothing, blind dogs fly over things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 blind	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dogs	amod
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fly	nsubj
5	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 things	case
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	blind dogs			things			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over thing=Location

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