Test 19 · ★ · Meeting a dog safely

Ben's scared of dogs and screamed at a puppy lol, everyone's copying him at break

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone · What happens: scream, copy · To what, where: puppy, break

This is test 19 · ★ 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	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 scared	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ben	case
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 dogs	case
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 screamed	cc
7	screamed	scream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 scared	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 puppy	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 puppy	det
10	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 screamed	obl
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	10 puppy	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 copying	punct
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 copying	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 copying	aux
15	copying	copy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 scared	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 copying	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 break	case
18	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 copying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	participle						at a puppy	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at puppy=Location
2	copy	present · progressive	everyone	puppy		break			vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme at break=Destination

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 · ← Mova's choice

Spread it, so he gets over his fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spread	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gets	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 gets	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gets	nsubj
6	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Spread	parataxis
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 fear	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 fear	nmod:poss
9	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here	it		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	get	present	he		his fear	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over fear=Destination
3	fear		his = he			nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Copy him, because it is funny and harmless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Copy	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 funny	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 funny	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 funny	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 funny	cop
7	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Copy	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 harmless	cc
9	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 funny	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	copy	imperative	you not said here	him = he		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	is	present	it		funny property	tree rules
3	be					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Do not copy or spread it; being scared of dogs is real and teasing makes it worse

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 copy	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 copy	advmod
3	copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 spread	cc
5	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 copy	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spread	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 scared	punct
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 scared	cop
9	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 real	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 dogs	case
11	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 scared	obl
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 real	cop
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spread	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 makes	cc
15	teasing	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 makes	nsubj
16	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 real	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 makes	obj
18	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not copy	imperative · do-support	you not said here			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	spread	infinitive	you not said here	it		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	is	gerund			of dogs; scared property	tree rules
4	is	present	scared		real property	tree rules
5	tease	gerund				vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	make	present		it	bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 4

Spread it, and say he cried as well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spread	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 say	cc
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Spread	parataxis
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	nsubj
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
8	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	7 cried	advmod
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 as	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here	it	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	infinitive			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cry speech: express	past	he		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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