Test 2 · Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house

«we moved ages ago, never bothered changing the chip details, whatever» What would happen if the dog got lost?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: we, whatever · What happens: move, not bother, not change, happen, lose · To what, where: ages, chip details, dog

This is test 2 of lesson 332 «Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house» 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	_	3 moved	punct
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 moved	nsubj
3	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 moved	obj
5	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 moved	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bothered	punct
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 bothered	advmod
8	bothered	bother	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 moved	conj
9	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 bothered	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 details	det
11	chip	chip	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 details	compound
12	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 changing	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 whatever	punct
14	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 happen	nsubj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 whatever	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 happen	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 happen	aux
18	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 details	acl:relcl
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 lost	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dog	det
21	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lost	nsubj:pass
22	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 lost	aux:pass
23	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 happen	advcl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 moved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	move in a quote	past	we	ages	ago property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent age=Theme
2	not bother in a quote	participle	we not said here			tree rules
3	not change in a quote	gerund	we not said here	the chip details		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Patient
4	happen	would	whatever			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lose a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		the dog		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

The chip would lead the finder to the old address

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chip	det
2	chip	chip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lead	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lead	aux
4	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 finder	det
6	finder	finder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lead	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 address	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 address	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 address	amod
10	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lead	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	would	the chip	the finder		the old address			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finder=Theme to address=Destination

Option 2

The chip would ring the owner's phone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chip	det
2	chip	chip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ring	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ring	aux
4	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 owner	det
6	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 phone	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 owner	case
8	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	would	the chip	the owner's phone					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location phone=Theme

Option 3

The chip would update itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chip	det
2	chip	chip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 update	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 update	aux
4	update	update	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 update	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	update speech: other	would	the chip	chip					vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient

Option 4

The dog could not be scanned at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scanned	nsubj:pass
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 scanned	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 scanned	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 scanned	aux:pass
6	scanned	scan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 scanned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not scan	could · passive		the dog		all			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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