Test 6 · Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house

«fireworks tonight, gonna take the dog to watch» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fireworks tonight, best answer · What happens: take, watch, be · To what, where: dog

This is test 6 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 tonight	punct
2	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tonight	compound
3	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tonight	punct
5	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 take	dep
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dog	det
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 watch	mark
10	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 take	advcl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 take	advcl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 What	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 answer	det
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 answer	amod
16	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 What	nsubj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	take in a quote	infinitive	fireworks tonight	the dog	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination
2	watch in a quote	to-infinitive	fireworks tonight not said here		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	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 · ✓ the right answer

Keep him inside with the curtains shut and a den; bangs sound louder to him

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	inside	inside	ADV	_	1 Keep	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 shut	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 curtains	det
6	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shut	nsubj
7	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 den	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 den	det
10	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shut	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 sound	punct
12	bangs	bang	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sound	nsubj
13	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	parataxis
14	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 sound	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sound	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	him = he				with shut and a den; inside property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	sound	present	bangs		him = he			loud property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to he=Experiencer

Option 2

Leave him tied up in the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Leave	xcomp
4	up	up	ADP	_	1 Leave	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave up	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the garden			tree rules
2	tie up	participle	him = he not said here						vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Dogs love fireworks, take him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 love	nsubj
2	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 love	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 love	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	Dogs	fireworks					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer firework=Stimulus
2	take	infinitive	Dogs not said here		him = he				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

Option 4

Take him, but cover his eyes with a scarf so the flashes do not scare him at all

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cover	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 cover	cc
5	cover	cover	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyes	nmod:poss
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cover	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 scarf	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 scarf	det
10	scarf	scarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cover	obl
11	so	so	SCONJ	_	16 scare	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flashes	det
13	flashes	flash	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 scare	nsubj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 scare	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 scare	advmod
16	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Take	advcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 scare	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 scare	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here		him = he			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	cover	infinitive	you not said here	his eyes			with a scarf	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Destination with scarf=Theme
3	not scare	present · do-support	the flashes	him = he		all		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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