Test 19 · ★ · Kindness to animals

older kids teasing: "Sam walks his dog past Ella's house every day cos he loves her, ooooh!" what's going on and what's right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: older kids, Sam · What happens: tease, walk, love, go on, be · To what, where: dog, house

This is test 19 · ★ of lesson 207 «Kindness to animals» 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	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 kids	amod
2	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 teasing	nsubj
3	teasing	tease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 walks	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 walks	punct
6	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 walks	nsubj
7	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 teasing	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dog	nmod:poss
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walks	obj
10	past	past	ADP	_	13 house	case
11	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 house	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Ella	case
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walks	obl
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walks	obl:unmarked
16	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	18 loves	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 loves	nsubj
18	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 walks	advcl
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 loves	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ooooh	punct
21	ooooh	ooooh	INTJ	_	26 going	discourse
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 ooooh	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 ooooh	punct
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 going	nsubj
25	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 going	aux
26	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 teasing	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	26 going	compound:prt
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 right	cc
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 right	nsubj
30	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 right	cop
31	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 going	conj
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 teasing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tease	gerund	older kids					vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	walk in a quote	present	Sam	Sam's dog	Ella's house	day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent dog=Theme past house=Trajectory
3	love in a quote	present	Sam	dog				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	go on	present · progressive						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present					right 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

Sam is stealing from Ella's house, tell the police

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stealing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stealing	aux
3	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 house	case
5	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 house	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Ella	case
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stealing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stealing	punct
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stealing	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 police	det
11	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	present · progressive	Sam			Ella's house			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Sam not said here	the police					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent police=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Maybe Sam likes Ella; teasing him for it is unkind, so don't join in

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maybe	maybe	ADV	_	3 likes	advmod
2	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 likes	nsubj
3	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 likes	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 teasing	punct
6	teasing	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 unkind	csubj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 teasing	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 teasing	obl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 unkind	cop
11	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 likes	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 join	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 join	advmod
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 join	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 join	advmod
16	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 likes	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	16 join	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like	present	Sam	Ella	maybe property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ella=Theme
2	tease	gerund		Ella	for it	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	is	present	teasing		unkind property	tree rules
4	not join in	infinitive · do-support	Sam not said here			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The dog is lost and needs a home

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 lost	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux:pass
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 needs	cc
6	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 home	det
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		the dog					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	need	present		a home					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot home=Theme

Option 4

Sam's dog loves Ella's cat, so it's fine to laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dog	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Sam	case
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loves	nsubj
4	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cat	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Ella	case
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loves	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fine	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 fine	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fine	expl
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fine	cop
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 loves	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 laugh	mark
14	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	love	present	Sam's dog	Ella's cat		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus
2	is	present	Sam's dog not said here		fine property	tree rules
3	laugh	to-infinitive	Sam's dog not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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