Test 10 · ★ · Pet care, food and responsibility

dog just ate my sock!!

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog · What happens: eat · To what, where: sock

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 205 «Pet care, food and responsibility» 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	3 ate	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 ate	advmod
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sock	nmod:poss
5	sock	sock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obj
6	!!	!!	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	dog	my sock					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sock=Patient

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

It'll be fine, dogs eat socks

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	4 fine	expl
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	nsubj
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	parataxis
8	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future						fine property	tree rules
2	eat	present	dogs	socks					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sock=Patient

Option 2

Give him another to balance it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	1 Give	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 balance	mark
5	balance	balance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 balance	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	another	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient another=Theme
2	balance	to-infinitive	you not said here	it					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

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

Tell an adult straight away, it may need a vet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 need	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 need	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 need	aux
9	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 vet	det
11	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult			away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	need	may	adult	a vet					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vet=Theme

Option 4

Wait a week and see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 week	det
3	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl:unmarked
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 see	cc
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here				week		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	infinitive	you not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/t10/