Test 12 · ★ · Meeting a dog safely

knocked over by a dog

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: knock over

This is test 12 · ★ 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	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	1 knocked	compound:prt
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 dog	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 knocked	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock over	participle							vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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

Kick at the dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kick	kick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 dog	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	imperative	you not said here					at the dog	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at dog=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Be a rock, curl up, cover your head and neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 rock	cop
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rock	det
3	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 curl	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rock	punct
5	curl	curl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 curl	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cover	punct
8	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 curl	conj
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cover	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 neck	cc
12	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 head	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	infinitive		a rock	tree rules
2	curl up	infinitive	a rock		vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
3	cover	infinitive	a rock not said here	your head and neck	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Destination

Option 3

Lie flat with arms out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	flat	flat	ADV	_	1 Lie	advmod
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 arms	case
4	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lie	obl
5	out	out	ADV	_	1 Lie	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	imperative	you not said here					with arms; flat, out property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Roll around and scream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	around	around	ADV	_	1 Roll	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 scream	cc
4	scream	scream	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Roll	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll around	imperative	you not said here					around property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	scream speech: express	infinitive	you not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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