Test 2 · Reading a dog's body language

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 2 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true 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

A dog's ears never show you how it is feeling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ears	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dog	case
4	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 show	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 show	advmod
6	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 show	iobj
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 feeling	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 feeling	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 feeling	aux
11	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 show	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not show	present	a dog's ears		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	feel	present · progressive	dog						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

A wagging tail always means a friendly dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tail	det
2	wagging	wag	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 tail	amod
3	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 means	advmod
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dog	det
7	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dog	amod
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wag	gerund							vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	a wagging tail	a friendly dog				always property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Topic

Option 3

Only a growl can ever show a dog's feelings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 growl	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 growl	det
3	growl	growl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 show	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 show	aux
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 show	advmod
6	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dog	det
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feelings	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 dog	case
10	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	can	a growl	a dog's feelings			ever		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent feeling=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A dog can wag its tail and still be tense

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wag	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wag	aux
4	wag	wag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tail	nmod:poss
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wag	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tense	cc
8	still	still	ADV	_	10 tense	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 tense	cop
10	tense	tense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wag	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wag	can	a dog	dog's tail					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
2	is	infinitive	a dog not said here				still	tense property	tree rules

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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