Test 1 · ★★★ · How animals talk

«dog's wagging its tail so it's friendly, I'm gonna pet it» What is the best advice?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog, it, I, best advice · What happens: wag, be · To what, where: tail, gonna pet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 50 «How animals talk» 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 wagging	punct
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wagging	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wagging	aux
4	wagging	wag	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 friendly	csubj
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tail	nmod:poss
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wagging	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 friendly	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 friendly	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 friendly	cop
10	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pet	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 pet	nsubj
13	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 pet	cop
14	gonna	gonna	X	_	15 pet	compound
15	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 friendly	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 friendly	nsubj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 friendly	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 friendly	parataxis
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	22 advice	det
21	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 advice	amod
22	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 What	nsubj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 friendly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wag in a quote	present · progressive	dog	dog's tail		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
2	is in a quote	present	it		friendly property	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	I	gonna pet		tree rules
4	is a	present	the best advice			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

Fine, pet it on the head straight away, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pet	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
3	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 head	nsubj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 head	nsubj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 head	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 head	det
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	7 head	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 head	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Only pet dogs that are not wagging

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 dogs	advmod
2	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dogs	compound
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 wagging	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wagging	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 wagging	advmod
7	wagging	wag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 dogs	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wag	present · progressive	pet dogs						vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Ask the owner first and look at the whole body; a stiff wag can mean tense

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 owner	det
3	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Ask	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 look	cc
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 body	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 body	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 body	amod
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 mean	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wag	det
13	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wag	amod
14	wag	wag	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mean	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 mean	aux
16	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	parataxis
17	tense	tense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mean	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	the owner	first property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient
2	look	infinitive	you not said here		at the whole body	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at body=Theme
3	mean	can	a stiff wag		tense property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Fine, any wag means happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	ccomp
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 wag	det
4	wag	wag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	any wag					happy property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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