Test 12 · ★★★ · Thinking about noticing

dog barks at nothing, i can't hear anything

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog barks · What happens: not hear · To what, where: anything

This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 20 «Thinking about noticing» 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	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 barks	compound
2	barks	bark	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hear	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 nothing	case
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 barks	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 barks	punct
6	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 hear	nsubj
7	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hear	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 hear	advmod
9	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	can	dog barks at nothing	anything					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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

Dogs just bark for no reason at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bark	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 bark	advmod
3	bark	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 reason	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 reason	det
6	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bark	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 bark	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	present	Dogs					for no reason; at all	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at all=Stimulus

Option 2

It's seeing ghosts in the hallway

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 seeing	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 seeing	aux
3	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 seeing	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hallway	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hallway	det
7	hallway	hallway	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seeing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present · progressive	It	ghosts		the hallway			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ghost=Stimulus

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

Dogs hear high sounds we can't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hear	nsubj
2	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sounds	amod
4	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hear	obj
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 ca	nsubj
6	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sounds	acl:relcl
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 ca	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	Dogs	high sounds					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus

Option 4

Its ears are broken or something

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 ears	nmod:poss
2	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 broken	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 broken	aux:pass
4	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 something	cc
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 broken	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present · passive		Its ears					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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