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Test 9 · Reading a dog's body language

A girl in Ohio thinks: «Our dog knows me, so it will never bite me.» What is wrong with her idea?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, dog · What happens: think, know, not bite, be · To what, where: girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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 girl in Ohio thinks: «Our dog knows me, so it will never bite me.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thinks	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ohio	case
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 knows	punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 knows	punct
8	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dog	nmod:poss
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knows	nsubj
10	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thinks	ccomp
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 knows	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bite	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 bite	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bite	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 bite	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 bite	advmod
17	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 knows	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 bite	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thinks	punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 thinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	a girl in Ohio						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	know in a quote	present	Our dog	a girl in Ohio = girl					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
3	not bite in a quote	future	dog	a girl in Ohio = girl					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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.

Sentence 2: What is wrong with her idea?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 idea	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 idea	nmod:poss
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrong	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						with girl's idea; wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Family dogs cannot feel scared or annoyed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dogs	compound
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 feel	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 feel	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 feel	advmod
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feel	xcomp
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 annoyed	cc
8	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 scared	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not feel	can	Family dogs					scared property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Dogs never bite anyone they have met before, only strangers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bite	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 bite	advmod
3	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 bite	obj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 met	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 met	aux
7	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 bite	advcl
8	before	before	ADV	_	7 met	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 strangers	punct
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 strangers	advmod
11	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bite	present	Dogs	anyone				strangers obl	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient
2	meet	present · perfect	Dogs = dog					before property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Only very large dogs ever bite people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 dogs	advmod
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 large	advmod
3	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dogs	amod
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bite	nsubj
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 bite	advmod
6	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	large dogs	people			ever		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Most bites come from dogs children already know

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 bites	amod
2	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 dogs	case
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	obl
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 know	nsubj
7	already	already	ADV	_	8 know	advmod
8	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dogs	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Most bites					from dogs	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from dog=Initial_Location
2	know	present	children	dogs not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus

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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