Test 9 · Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house

A cartoon dog walks home across a whole country and a friend says it is all made up. What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon dog, friend · What happens: walk, say, make up, be · To what, where: whole country, friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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

Sentence 1: A cartoon dog walks home across a whole country and a friend says it is all made up.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dog	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dog	compound
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walks	nsubj
4	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 walks	advmod
6	across	across	ADP	_	9 country	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 country	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 country	amod
9	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walks	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 says	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 friend	det
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	nsubj
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 walks	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 made	aux:pass
16	all	all	ADV	_	17 made	advmod
17	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 says	ccomp
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 made	compound:prt
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 walks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	present	a cartoon dog		a whole country	home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across country=Trajectory
2	say speech: assert	present	a friend				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make up	present · passive		friend		all property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot

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.

Sentence 2: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

All lost dogs find their way home within a day, because they follow their own smell

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 dogs	det
2	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dogs	amod
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	nsubj
4	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
7	home	home	ADV	_	4 find	advmod
8	within	within	ADP	_	10 day	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 follow	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 follow	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 follow	nsubj
14	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 find	conj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 smell	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 smell	amod
17	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 follow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	present	all lost dogs	dogs's way	day	home property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
3	follow	present	dogs = dog	dogs's own smell			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Theme
4	smell		dogs = dog				nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Only cartoon dogs can find their way home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 dogs	advmod
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dogs	compound
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 find	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 way	nmod:poss
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obj
8	home	home	ADV	_	5 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	can	cartoon dogs	dogs's way				home property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

Option 3

Pets cannot find their way across one street

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 find	advmod
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
7	across	across	ADP	_	9 street	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 street	nummod
9	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find	can	Pets	Pets's way		one street			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Some real pets have found their way home, and scientists still do not know how

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 pets	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pets	amod
3	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 found	nsubj:pass
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 found	aux
5	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 way	nmod:poss
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obj
8	home	home	ADV	_	5 found	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 know	cc
11	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 know	nsubj
12	still	still	ADV	_	15 know	advmod
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 know	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 know	advmod
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 found	conj
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 know	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present · perfect · passive		some real pets				home property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme way=Attribute
2	not know	present · do-support	scientists				still		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/t9/