Test 8 · ★ · Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling

Which is true about a dog barking behind its own fence?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: be, bark · To what, where: own fence

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 117 «Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling» of the everyday 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 dog	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
7	barking	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 dog	acl
8	behind	behind	ADP	_	11 fence	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 fence	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fence	amod
11	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 barking	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about a dog; true property	tree rules
2	bark	gerund	a dog not said here			dog's own fence			vn animal_sounds-38 «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

It barks only because it wants a treat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 barks	nsubj
2	barks	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 barks	advmod
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 wants	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wants	nsubj
6	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 barks	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 treat	det
8	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wants	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	present	It						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	it	a treat					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot treat=Theme

Option 2

It wants you to climb over the fence and play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 wants	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 climb	mark
5	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 fence	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fence	det
8	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climb	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 play	cc
10	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fence	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	It	you					tree rules
2	climb not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			the fence and play			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over fence=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It may bite a hand that comes through

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bite	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bite	aux
3	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hand	det
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bite	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 comes	nsubj
7	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hand	acl:relcl
8	through	through	ADV	_	7 comes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	may	It	a hand					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	come through	present	a hand					through property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Barking dogs never ever bite anyone at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Barking	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 dogs	amod
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bite	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 bite	advmod
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 bite	advmod
5	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 bite	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 bite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	gerund							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not bite	infinitive	Barking dogs	anyone		all	ever		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient at all=Location

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