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Test 11 · Senses: nose, tongue and skin

A sniffer dog at the airport sits down beside a bag. Why trust its nose?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sniffer dog, you · What happens: sit down, trust · To what, where: bag, nose

This is test 11 of lesson 70 «Senses: nose, tongue and skin» 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: A sniffer dog at the airport sits down beside a bag.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dog	det
2	sniffer	sniffer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dog	compound
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sits	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 airport	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 airport	det
6	airport	airport	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dog	nmod
7	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 sits	compound:prt
9	beside	beside	ADP	_	11 bag	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bag	det
11	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sits	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	present	a sniffer dog at the airport			a bag			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside bag=Location

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: Why trust its nose?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 trust	advmod
2	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 nose	nmod:poss
4	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trust	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 trust	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	imperative	you not said here	bag's nose					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme

The options

Option 1

Dogs can read the labels on bags

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 read	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 read	aux
3	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 labels	det
5	labels	label	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 read	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 bags	case
7	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 read	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	can	Dogs	the labels		bags			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Dogs have hundreds of millions of smell cells, far more than us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 millions	case
5	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hundreds	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 cells	case
7	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cells	compound
8	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 millions	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 more	punct
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 more	advmod
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 have	obj
12	than	than	ADP	_	13 us	case
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Dogs	hundreds of millions of smell cells					tree rules

Option 3

Dogs just guess and are often lucky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 guess	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 guess	advmod
3	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lucky	cc
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lucky	cop
6	often	often	ADV	_	7 lucky	advmod
7	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 guess	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	present	Dogs						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Dogs not said here					lucky, often property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Dogs can see inside bags

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	inside	inside	ADP	_	5 bags	case
5	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	Dogs			bags			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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