Test 4 · Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats

«chuck the dog a bit of my chocolate, he's begging» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, dog, best answer · What happens: chuck, beg, be · To what, where: dog

This is test 4 of lesson 347 «Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats» 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	_	2 chuck	punct
2	chuck	chuck	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chuck	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chuck	obl:unmarked
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 chocolate	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 chocolate	nmod:poss
9	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 begging	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 begging	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 begging	aux
13	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 chuck	advcl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 begging	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 begging	obl
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 What	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 answer	det
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 answer	amod
19	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 What	nsubj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 chuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	chuck in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the dog	a bit of my chocolate obl:unmarked	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
2	beg speech: request in a quote	present · progressive	dog			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: 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

No, but give him coffee instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 give	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 give	cc
4	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	coffee	him = he			instead property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient coffee=Theme

Option 2

Yes, but only dark chocolate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 dark	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 dark	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 dark	advmod
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chocolate	amod
6	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Yeah, a little bit is fine for dogs, as long as it is milk chocolate

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fine	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bit	amod
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fine	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	cop
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 dogs	case
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fine	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 long	punct
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 long	advmod
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 fine	conj
13	as	as	ADP	_	17 chocolate	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 chocolate	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 chocolate	cop
16	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chocolate	compound
17	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 long	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a little bit					for dogs; fine property	tree rules
2	is	present	bit					as milk chocolate	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, chocolate can make dogs very ill; keep it out of reach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 chocolate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	obj
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 ill	advmod
8	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 make	xcomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 keep	punct
10	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 make	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 keep	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	14 reach	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 reach	case
14	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	can	chocolate	dogs				ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material dog=Product
2	keep	infinitive		chocolate		reach			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme out reach=Location

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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