Test 10 · ★ · Meeting a dog safely

cute dog tied outside the shop, can i pat it

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cute dog · What happens: tie, pat · To what, where: cute dog, shop

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 22 «Meeting a dog safely» 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	cute	cute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dog	amod
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pat	nsubj
3	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 dog	acl
4	outside	outside	ADP	_	6 shop	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shop	det
6	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tied	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dog	punct
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 pat	aux
9	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 pat	nsubj
10	pat	pat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle		cute dog not said here				outside the shop	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	pat	can	cute dog	shop					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, if it wags

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 wags	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 wags	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wags	nsubj
5	wags	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wag	present	it						vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, not without the owner saying yes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 saying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 saying	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 saying	advmod
4	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 saying	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 owner	det
6	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saying	nsubj
7	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
8	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 saying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	gerund	the owner						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, quickly before it moves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 moves	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	6 moves	advmod
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 moves	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 moves	nsubj
6	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	it					quickly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, on the top of its head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 top	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 top	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 top	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 top	det
5	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 top	nmod

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

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