Test 6 · ★ · Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime tree…

«mate's dog keeps shaking its head after a steppe walk» What might be the cause?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: keep, shake, be · To what, where: head, cause

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 377 «Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses» 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	_	5 keeps	punct
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dog	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 mate	case
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeps	nsubj
5	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 cause	advcl
6	shaking	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keeps	xcomp
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shaking	obj
9	after	after	ADP	_	12 walk	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 walk	det
11	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walk	compound
12	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shaking	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 keeps	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 cause	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 cause	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 cause	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cause	det
18	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 cause	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	keep in a quote	present	mate's dog			tree rules
2	shake in a quote	gerund	mate's dog not said here	dog's head	after a steppe walk	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
3	is a	might		the cause		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 dog is cold and wet after swimming in a pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cold	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wet	cc
6	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cold	conj
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 swimming	mark
8	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 cold	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 pond	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pond	det
11	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swimming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the dog		cold property	tree rules
2	be		the dog not said here			tree rules
3	swim	gerund	the dog not said here	a pond		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pond=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A sharp feather grass seed stuck in its ear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 seed	det
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seed	amod
3	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grass	compound
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seed	compound
5	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 seed	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 ear	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ear	nmod:poss
9	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	participle		a sharp grass seed not said here		seed's ear			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in ear=Destination

Option 3

The dog is dancing to music

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dancing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dancing	aux
4	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 music	mark
6	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dancing	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	present · progressive	the dog						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The dog likes the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 likes	nsubj
3	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wind	det
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 likes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	the dog	the wind					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wind=Theme

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