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Test 4 · ★★★ · Thinking about noticing

Your dog barks at the front door, though you heard nothing. What is the best explanation?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog, you, best explanation · What happens: bark, hear, be · To what, where: nothing

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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

Sentence 1: Your dog barks at the front door, though you heard nothing.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dog	nmod:poss
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 barks	nsubj
3	barks	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
6	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 door	amod
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 barks	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	11 heard	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 barks	parataxis
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 heard	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 barks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	present	Your dog					at the front door	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at door=Stimulus
2	hear	past	you	nothing					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=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.

Sentence 2: What is the best explanation?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 explanation	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 explanation	amod
5	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best explanation						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

The dog heard or smelled something you could not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 something	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 something	amod
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 smelled	cc
5	smelled	smell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 heard	conj
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 could	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 something	acl:relcl
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 could	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	participle							vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	smell	participle							vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The dog can see right through the door with its sharp eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	8 door	advmod
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 eyes	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eyes	nmod:poss
11	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 eyes	amod
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	the dog	the door				with dog's sharp eyes	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus

Option 3

The dog is barking at nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 barking	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 barking	aux
4	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 nothing	case
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 barking	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 barking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	present · progressive	the dog					at all; at nothing	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at nothing=Stimulus

Option 4

The dog is able to predict the future

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 able	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 able	cop
4	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 predict	mark
6	predict	predict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 able	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 future	det
8	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 predict	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the dog					able property	tree rules
2	predict	to-infinitive	the dog not said here	the future					vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot future=Topic

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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