Test 3 · ★ · Kindness to animals

Why do animals often run from children who shout and run?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: animals, children · What happens: run, shout

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 run	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 run	aux
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 run	nsubj
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 run	advmod
5	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 children	case
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 run	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 shout	nsubj
9	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 children	acl:relcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 run	cc
11	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 shout	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 run	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	run	present · do-support	animals	from children; often property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from child=Trajectory
2	shout speech: express	present	children		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	run	infinitive	children not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Animals cannot see children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	Animals	children					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus

Option 2

They do not like the colours of children's clothes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 colours	det
6	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 like	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 clothes	case
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 clothes	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 children	case
10	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 colours	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	present · do-support	They	the colours of children's clothes					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot colour=Theme

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

Loud noise and fast movement frighten them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 noise	amod
2	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 frighten	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 movement	cc
4	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 movement	amod
5	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 noise	conj
6	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 frighten	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	infinitive	Loud noise and fast movement	them = they					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

Option 4

They are jealous of children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 jealous	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 jealous	cop
3	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 children	case
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 jealous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					of children; jealous property	tree rules

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