Test 15 · Reading a dog's body language

grandma's dog bit my cousin, but he's always been nice??

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: bite, be · To what, where: cousin

This is test 15 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	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dog	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 grandma	case
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bit	nsubj
4	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cousin	nmod:poss
6	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bit	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nice	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 nice	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 nice	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 nice	cop
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 nice	advmod
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 nice	cop
13	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bit	parataxis
14	??	??	PUNCT	_	4 bit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	grandma's dog	my cousin					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cousin=Patient
2	is	present	dog					always, nice 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 · ← Mova's choice

He must be a bad dog now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dog	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 dog	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 dog	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dog	det
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dog	amod
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 dog	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	must	He	a bad dog			now		tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Even friendly dogs bite when scared or hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Even	even	ADV	_	3 dogs	advmod
2	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dogs	amod
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bite	nsubj
4	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 scared	mark
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bite	advcl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 hurt	cc
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 scared	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	friendly dogs						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	hurt	participle	friendly dogs not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Dogs only bite people they do not know

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bite	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 bite	advmod
3	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bite	obj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 know	nsubj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 know	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 know	advmod
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 people	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	Dogs	people					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
2	not know	present · do-support	Dogs = dog	people not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus

Option 4

He was only trying to play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trying	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 trying	advmod
4	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 play	mark
6	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trying	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	He						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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