Test 5 · Reading a dog's body language

Which of these is a warning sign that a dog may bite?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: be, bite · To what, where: warning sign

This is test 5 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	7 sign	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	7 sign	case
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 sign	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sign	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sign	det
6	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sign	compound
7	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 bite	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bite	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 bite	aux
12	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sign	acl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sign	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						of a warning sign	tree rules
2	bite	may	a dog	a warning sign not said here					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Its body suddenly stiffens and goes still

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 body	nmod:poss
2	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stiffens	nsubj
3	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 stiffens	advmod
4	stiffens	stiffen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 goes	cc
6	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stiffens	conj
7	still	still	ADV	_	6 goes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stiffen	present	Its body					suddenly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	go	present	Its body not said here				still		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Its body is loose and wiggly all over, like jelly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 body	nmod:poss
2	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loose	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 loose	cop
4	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wiggly	cc
6	wiggly	wiggly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 loose	conj
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 over	advmod
8	over	over	ADV	_	4 loose	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 jelly	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 jelly	case
11	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loose	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Its body					loose, over property	tree rules
2	be		Its body not said here						tree rules

Option 3

It rolls over 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 rolls	nsubj
2	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADV	_	2 rolls	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 play	mark
5	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 rolls	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll over	present	It					over property	tree rules
2	play	to-infinitive							vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It wags its tail with its whole bottom

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 wags	nsubj
2	wags	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tail	nmod:poss
4	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wags	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 bottom	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bottom	nmod:poss
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bottom	amod
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wags	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wag	present	It	its tail				with tail's whole bottom	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

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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