Test 5 · Bedroom, living room and manners at home
Which is true about a calm family dog and a toddler?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be
This is test 5 of lesson 119 «Bedroom, living room and manners at home» 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 | _ | 8 dog | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dog | det |
| 6 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dog | amod |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dog | compound |
| 8 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 true | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 toddler | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 toddler | det |
| 11 | toddler | toddler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dog | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | about a calm family dog and a toddler; true property | 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
Toddlers cannot hurt dogs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toddlers | toddler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hurt | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 hurt | advmod |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hurt | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt | can | Toddlers | dogs | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Dogs only snap at grown-ups
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 snap | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 snap | advmod |
| 3 | snap | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 ups | case |
| 5 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ups | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 grown | punct |
| 7 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 snap | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snap | present | Dogs | grown ups | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at up=Location | ||||
| 2 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
A calm dog never snaps at anyone
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 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dog | amod |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 snaps | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 snaps | advmod |
| 5 | snaps | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 anyone | case |
| 7 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 snaps | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not snap | present | a calm dog | anyone | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at anyone=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Even a calm dog can snap if it is pulled or hurt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 4 dog | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dog | det |
| 3 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dog | amod |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 snap | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 snap | aux |
| 6 | snap | snap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 pulled | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pulled | aux:pass |
| 10 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 snap | advcl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 hurt | cc |
| 12 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 pulled | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snap | can | a calm dog | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | pull a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | dog | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hurt | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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