Test 4 · ★ · Meeting a dog safely

Why is «be a tree» a clever trick?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: tree

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 tree	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tree	cop
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 tree	punct
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 tree	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 tree	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 trick	det
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trick	amod
10	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	nmod:unmarked
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tree	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		a tree				a clever trick nmod:unmarked	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

A still, quiet person is boring to a dog, so it loses interest

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 person	det
2	still	still	ADV	_	4 quiet	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 still	punct
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 person	amod
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boring	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 boring	cop
7	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 dog	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boring	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 loses	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 loses	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 loses	nsubj
14	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 boring	conj
15	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 loses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a quiet person					to a dog; boring property	tree rules
2	lose	present	person	interest					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Eventuality

Option 2

Trees scare dogs away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scare	nsubj
2	scare	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scare	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 scare	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare away	present	Trees	dogs				away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus dog=Experiencer

Option 3

Dogs think trees are their friends, so they will not bite a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 friends	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 friends	cop
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friends	nmod:poss
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 think	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bite	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 bite	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bite	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 bite	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 bite	advmod
12	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 think	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Dogs		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	trees	trees's friends	tree rules
3	not bite	future	Dogs = dog	a tree	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient

Option 4

Standing still makes you invisible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 makes	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 makes	advmod
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 makes	obj
5	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present		you			still	invisible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product

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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