Test 8 · ★★ · Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog…
Your friend's dog growls and goes stiff when you reach for its bone. What should you do?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog, you · What happens: growl, go, reach, do
This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 399 «Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog bites and cat scratches» 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: Your friend's dog growls and goes stiff when you reach for its bone.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dog | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 friend | case |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 growls | nsubj |
| 5 | growls | growl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 goes | cc |
| 7 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 growls | conj |
| 8 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 goes | xcomp |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 reach | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 reach | nsubj |
| 11 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 goes | advcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 bone | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bone | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reach | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 growls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | growl | present | Your friend's dog | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | present | Your friend's dog not said here | stiff property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reach | present | you | for dog's bone | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «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.
Sentence 2: What should you do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1
Grab the bone quickly before the dog can bite you
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grab | grab | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bone | det |
| 3 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Grab | obj |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 Grab | advmod |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 bite | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dog | det |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bite | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 bite | aux |
| 9 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Grab | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 bite | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | imperative | you not said here | the bone | quickly property | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme | |||
| 2 | bite | can | the dog | you | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
Option 2
Stare hard into its eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stare | stare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Stare | advmod |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 eyes | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Stare | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | imperative | you not said here | into its eyes; hard property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Back off and leave the dog and the bone alone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Back | back | ADV | _ | 2 off | advmod |
| 2 | off | off | ADV | _ | 4 leave | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 leave | cc |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bone | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bone | det |
| 9 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dog | conj |
| 10 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 leave | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | the dog and the bone | alone, off property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |
Option 4
Pat it on the head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pat | Pat | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Pat | appos |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 head | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 head | det |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pat | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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