Test 9 · ★ · Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dun…

«why's he sniff every lamp post on the walk, it's well boring» What is the dog doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, post, dog · What happens: be, do · To what, where: walk

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 398 «Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals» 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 sniff	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 sniff	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sniff	cop
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sniff	nsubj
5	sniff	sniff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 post	det
7	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 post	compound
8	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sniff	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 walk	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 walk	det
11	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sniff	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 boring	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 boring	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 boring	cop
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 boring	advmod
16	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sniff	conj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 boring	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 boring	obj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 What	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dog	det
21	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 What	nsubj
22	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 What	acl:relcl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sniff	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	he	the walk	sniff property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	post		boring, well property	tree rules
3	is a	present	the dog			tree rules
4	do	gerund				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Counting the posts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 posts	det
3	posts	post	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Counting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	gerund		the posts					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent post=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Reading smell messages about which dogs passed and when

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 passed	csubj
2	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 messages	compound
3	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Reading	obj
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 dogs	det
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 messages	obj
7	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 when	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 passed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	gerund		smell messages					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Topic
2	pass	past	Reading						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Looking for lost bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 bones	case
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bones	amod
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund						for lost bones	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bone=Theme
2	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Checking for rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Checking	check	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 rain	case
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Checking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	gerund						for rain	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for rain=Attribute

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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