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Test 2 · Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a…

In Tom and Jerry, Spike the bulldog turns friendly after Tom gives him a bone. Is a street dog eating a bone safe to pat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Spike, Tom, street dog · What happens: turn, give, be, eat, pat · To what, where: Tom, bone, bulldog, street dog

This is test 2 of lesson 371 «Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal» 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: In Tom and Jerry, Spike the bulldog turns friendly after Tom gives him a bone.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Tom	case
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 turns	obl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Jerry	cc
4	Jerry	Jerry	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Tom	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tom	punct
6	Spike	Spike	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 turns	nsubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bulldog	det
8	bulldog	bulldog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turns	nsubj
9	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 turns	xcomp
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 gives	mark
12	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 gives	nsubj
13	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 turns	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gives	iobj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bone	det
16	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gives	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 turns	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Spike			Tom and Jerry		friendly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in tom=Trajectory
2	give	present	Tom	a bone	bulldog				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bone=Theme

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: Is a street dog eating a bone safe to pat?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dog	cop
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dog	det
3	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dog	compound
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 dog	acl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bone	det
7	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eating	obj
8	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eating	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 pat	mark
10	pat	pat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 safe	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dog	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a street dog					tree rules
2	eat	gerund	a street dog not said here	a bone				safe property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
3	pat	to-infinitive	a street dog not said here						vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, a dog with food is always happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 happy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 happy	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 food	case
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dog	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 happy	cop
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 happy	advmod
9	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a dog with food					always, happy property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, if you pat it while it chews

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 pat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pat	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 pat	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 pat	nsubj
5	pat	pat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pat	obj
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 chews	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 chews	nsubj
9	chews	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pat	present	you	it					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	chew	present	it						vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, food makes every dog calm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 food	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obj
7	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	food	every dog				calm property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material dog=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, dogs may bite to guard their food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 bite	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bite	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bite	aux
5	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 guard	mark
7	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bite	advcl
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 food	nmod:poss
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 guard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	may	dogs						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	guard	to-infinitive	dogs not said here	dogs's food					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Beneficiary

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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