Test 17 · ★ · Pet care, food and responsibility

did u hear the neighbour's dog ate a whole box of chocolates at Christmas and like exploded, they had to put it down. real lesson?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: u, dog, chocolates · What happens: hear, eat, explode, have, put down · To what, where: real lesson, whole box, Christmas, box

This is test 17 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 neighbour	det
5	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dog	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 neighbour	case
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	nsubj
8	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 box	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 box	amod
11	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 chocolates	case
13	chocolates	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 box	nmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 Christmas	case
15	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ate	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
17	like	like	SCONJ	_	18 exploded	mark
18	exploded	explode	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 had	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 exploded	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ate	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 put	mark
23	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 had	xcomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 put	obj
25	down	down	ADP	_	23 put	compound:prt
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
27	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 lesson	amod
28	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obl:unmarked
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u	real lesson		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	eat	past	the neighbour's dog	a whole box of chocolates	Christmas	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Patient
3	explode	participle	chocolates = chocolate not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	chocolates = chocolate			tree rules
5	put down	to-infinitive	chocolates = chocolate not said here	box		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

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

Give the dog lots of water and it'll be fine by morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lots	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lots	compound
4	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Give	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lots	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fine	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fine	expl
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 fine	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 fine	cop
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Give	conj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 morning	case
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	the dog lots of water					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme
2	is	future	you not said here				morning	fine property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Chocolate poisons dogs, so tell an adult at once if one eats any

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 poisons	compound
2	poisons	poison	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dogs	compound
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 tell	advmod
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 adult	det
8	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 tell	obl
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 eats	mark
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 eats	nsubj
13	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	advcl
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	infinitive	poisons dogs		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	eat a condition, not said to happen	present	one	any					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient

Option 3

Dogs only get sick from dark chocolate, and only in really huge amounts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 get	advmod
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 chocolate	case
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chocolate	amod
7	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 amounts	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 amounts	cc
10	only	only	ADV	_	14 amounts	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 amounts	case
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 huge	advmod
13	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 amounts	amod
14	amounts	amount	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Dogs			dark chocolate		in huge amounts; sick property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from chocolate=Destination

Option 4

Dogs can eat chocolate if it's only a small box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 box	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 box	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 box	cop
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 box	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 box	det
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 box	amod
11	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	can	Dogs	chocolate					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chocolate=Patient
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	chocolate	a small box					tree rules

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