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Test 6 · Reading a dog's body language

Two dogs meet in a park in Sydney. One has its tail held high and stiff, its body tense and its hair raised. How does it feel?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Two dogs, One · What happens: meet, have, hold, raise, feel · To what, where: park, tail, body tense

This is test 6 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: Two dogs meet in a park in Sydney.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 dogs	nummod
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 meet	nsubj
3	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 park	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 park	det
6	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meet	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Sydney	case
8	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 meet	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 meet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	present	Two dogs			a park		in Sydney	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: One has its tail held high and stiff, its body tense and its hair raised.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	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 has	obj
5	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tail	acl
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 held	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stiff	cc
8	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 high	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tense	punct
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tense	nmod:poss
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tense	compound
12	tense	tense	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tail	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hair	cc
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hair	nmod:poss
15	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tense	conj
16	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 tense	acl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	One	park's tail and park's body tense and park's hair					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
2	hold	participle		park's tail and park's body tense and park's hair not said here				high property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	raise	participle		park's body tense and park's hair not said here					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: How does it feel?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present · do-support	One						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Calm and sleepy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sleepy	cc
3	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Calm	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Shy and wanting to hide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 wanting	cc
3	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Shy	conj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hide	mark
5	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	gerund							vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hide not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Bored and uninterested

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 uninterested	cc
3	uninterested	uninterest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Bored	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	uninterest	participle							tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tense and ready for trouble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tense	tense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 ready	cc
3	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tense	conj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 trouble	case
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ready	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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