Test 9 · ★ · Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colou…

«i never dream, never ever» What is most likely true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: i · What happens: not dream, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 391 «Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses» 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 dream	punct
2	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 dream	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 dream	advmod
4	dream	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 true	csubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ever	punct
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 ever	advmod
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 dream	advmod
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 dream	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 true	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 true	cop
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	12 likely	advmod
12	likely	likely	ADV	_	13 true	advmod
13	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not dream in a quote	present	i				ever		vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	is	present						likely, true property	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

You probably dream every night but forget your dreams

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 dream	nsubj
2	probably	probably	ADV	_	3 dream	advmod
3	dream	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dream	obl:unmarked
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 forget	cc
7	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dream	conj
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dreams	nmod:poss
9	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	dream	present	You		night	probably property	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	forget	infinitive	You not said here	your dreams			tree rules
3	dream		your				nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Only old people have dreams, so you will dream later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 people	advmod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dream	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 dream	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 dream	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 dream	aux
10	dream	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	parataxis
11	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 dream	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	old people	dreams					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient
2	dream	future	you					late property	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

Option 3

You are right, because some people never sleep at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sleep	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 sleep	mark
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 people	det
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sleep	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 sleep	advmod
9	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You					right property	tree rules
2	not sleep	present	some people			all			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Dreams only happen to people when they are ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 happen	advmod
3	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 ill	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ill	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 ill	cop
9	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 happen	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	Dreams					to people	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	Dreams = dream					ill property	tree rules

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