Test 12 · Reading a dog's body language

dog did that bum in the air front legs down thing

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: do down · To what, where: bum, air

This is test 12 of lesson 21 «Reading a dog's body language» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 bum	det
4	bum	bum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
8	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 legs	amod
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	parataxis
10	down	down	ADP	_	2 did	compound:prt
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do down	past	dog	that bum		the air			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 · ← Mova's choice

It is about to bite

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	3 about	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 about	cop
3	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 bite	mark
5	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 about	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					about property	tree rules
2	bite	to-infinitive							vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It is very tired out

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 tired	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					out, tired property	tree rules

Option 3

It is hurt somewhere

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	3 hurt	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hurt	aux:pass
3	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 hurt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present · passive		It				somewhere property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It wants to play

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	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 play	mark
4	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	It						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	play not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn performance-26.7-1 «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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