Test 17 · Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom

my mate swears her dog ate a whole chocolate cake n "exploded". what's probs exaggerated

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, dog, whole chocolate cake n · What happens: swear, eat, explode, be, exaggerate · To what, where: whole chocolate cake n, probs

This is test 17 of lesson 118 «Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swears	nsubj
3	swears	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dog	nmod:poss
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	nsubj
6	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swears	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 n	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 n	amod
9	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 n	compound
10	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 n	compound
11	n	n	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	obj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 exploded	punct
13	exploded	explode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 n	acl:relcl
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 exploded	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swears	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 probs	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 probs	cop
18	probs	prob	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swears	conj
19	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 probs	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	swear	present	my mate		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	eat	past	mate's dog	a whole chocolate cake n	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent n=Patient
3	explode in a quote	past	a whole chocolate cake n not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	present		probs	tree rules
5	exaggerate	participle		probs not said here	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

That dogs should never be given chocolate cake or chocolate treats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 dogs	det
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 given	nsubj:pass
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 given	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 given	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 given	aux:pass
6	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cake	compound
8	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 given	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 treats	cc
10	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 treats	compound
11	treats	treat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cake	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not give	should · passive		that dogs					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient cake=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

That the dog may need a vet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 dog	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 need	aux
5	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 vet	det
7	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	may	that dog	a vet					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vet=Theme

Option 3

That chocolate is poisonous to dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 chocolate	det
2	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poisonous	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 poisonous	cop
4	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 dogs	case
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 poisonous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that chocolate					to dogs; poisonous property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The exploding; chocolate really can make a dog very ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 exploding	det
2	exploding	exploding	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	nsubj
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 chocolate	punct
4	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exploding	conj
5	really	really	ADV	_	7 make	advmod
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 make	aux
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 ill	advmod
11	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	can	the exploding and chocolate	a dog				ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dog=Product

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