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Test 3 · Reading a dog's body language

A puppy drops its front legs to the floor, sticks its bottom up and wiggles. What does it want?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: puppy · What happens: drop, stick up, want · To what, where: front legs, floor, bottom

This is test 3 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

Sentence 1: A puppy drops its front legs to the floor, sticks its bottom up and wiggles.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 puppy	det
2	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drops	nsubj
3	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 legs	nmod:poss
5	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 legs	amod
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drops	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 floor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 floor	det
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drops	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sticks	punct
11	sticks	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drops	parataxis
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bottom	nmod:poss
13	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sticks	obj
14	up	up	ADV	_	11 sticks	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wiggles	cc
16	wiggles	wiggle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sticks	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drops	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	present	a puppy	puppy's front legs		the floor			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leg=Theme to floor=Destination
2	stick up	present		puppy's bottom					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bottom=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.

Sentence 2: What does it want?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 want	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present · do-support	puppy						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

To jump up and bite you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 jump	mark
2	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADV	_	2 jump	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bite	cc
5	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 jump	conj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 bite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump up	to-infinitive							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bite	present		you					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

Option 2

To be left all alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 left	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 left	aux:pass
3	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 alone	advmod
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	to-infinitive · passive						alone property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To play with you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 play	mark
2	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 you	case
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	to-infinitive						with you	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent

Option 4

To go off to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 go	mark
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 go	compound:prt
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sleep	mark
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 go	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	to-infinitive							vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	to-infinitive							vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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