Test 11 · Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath

«dogs can smell when you're ill, it's all made up» What is fairest to say?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: dogs, you · What happens: smell, be, make up, say · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 356 «Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath» 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	_	4 smell	punct
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 smell	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 smell	aux
4	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 ill	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 ill	nsubj
7	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ill	cop
8	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 smell	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj:pass
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 made	aux:pass
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 made	advmod
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 fairest	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 made	compound:prt
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 fairest	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fairest	cop
18	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 smell	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 say	mark
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 fairest	acl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 smell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	smell in a quote	can	dogs			vn see-30.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	is in a quote	present	you		ill property	tree rules
3	make up in a quote	present · passive		it	all property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot
4	is	present			fair property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

Dogs smell only food, never people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 smell	nsubj
2	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 food	advmod
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smell	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 people	punct
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 people	advmod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 smell	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	Dogs	food					vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus

Option 2

Dogs cannot smell people at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 smell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 smell	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 smell	advmod
4	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 smell	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 smell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not smell	can	Dogs	people		all			vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent people=Theme at all=Location

Option 3

It is fully proven that dogs can sniff out every illness

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	4 proven	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 proven	aux:pass
3	fully	fully	ADV	_	4 proven	advmod
4	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 sniff	mark
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sniff	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 sniff	aux
8	sniff	sniff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 proven	advcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 sniff	compound:prt
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 illness	det
11	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sniff	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present · passive		It				fully property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	sniff out	can	dogs	every illness					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Theme

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

Trained dogs have been reported in research to sniff out some illnesses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 dogs	amod
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reported	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reported	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 reported	aux:pass
5	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 research	case
7	research	research	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reported	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sniff	mark
9	sniff	sniff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 reported	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 sniff	compound:prt
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 illnesses	det
12	illnesses	illness	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sniff	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	train	participle			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	report	present · perfect · passive	Trained dogs	research	vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	sniff out	to-infinitive	some illnesses		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Theme

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