Test 3 · ★ · Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Wi…

Why do some dog bowls have bumps inside?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog bowls · What happens: do, have · To what, where: bumps

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 396 «Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 have	advcl
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 bowls	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bowls	compound
5	bowls	bowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	bumps	bump	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
8	inside	inside	ADV	_	6 have	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	some dog bowls not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	some dog bowls	bumps				inside property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bump=Patient

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

To stop the bowl sliding on the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bowl	det
4	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stop	obj
5	sliding	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 bowl	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 floor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 floor	det
8	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sliding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		the bowl					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality bowl=Eventuality
2	slide	gerund	the bowl not said here			the floor			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Trajectory

Option 2

To clean the dog's teeth while it is eating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 clean	mark
2	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 teeth	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 dog	case
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 clean	obj
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 eating	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 eating	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 eating	aux
10	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 clean	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	to-infinitive		the dog's teeth					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
2	eat	present · progressive	dog						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

To make the food taste better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 taste	det
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taste	compound
5	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the food taste				good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset taste=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To slow a dog down so it does not gulp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 slow	mark
2	slow	slow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slow	obj
5	down	down	ADV	_	2 slow	advmod
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 gulp	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gulp	nsubj
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 gulp	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 gulp	advmod
10	gulp	gulp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 slow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow down	to-infinitive		a dog				down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dog=Patient
2	not gulp	present · do-support	dog						vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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