Test 7 · ★★ · Wild animals: keep away, never feed

Why should a dog be kept away from the water's edge in Florida?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: keep away · To what, where: dog, edge

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 26 «Wild animals: keep away, never feed» 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 kept	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 kept	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj:pass
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 kept	aux:pass
6	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 kept	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	12 edge	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 edge	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 water	case
12	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Florida	case
14	Florida	Florida	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 edge	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep away	should · passive		a dog		the water's edge in Florida		away property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from edge=Eventuality

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

Dogs cannot swim in fresh water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swim	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 swim	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 swim	advmod
4	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not swim	can	Dogs			fresh water			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

An alligator could grab it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 alligator	det
2	alligator	alligator	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grab	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grab	aux
4	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grab	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	could	a alligator	it					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Fish might nip at its paws in the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nip	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 nip	aux
3	nip	nip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 paws	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 paws	nmod:poss
6	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nip	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nip	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nip	might	Fish			Fish's paws		in the water	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at paw=Trajectory

Option 4

The water is bad for their fur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bad	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	cop
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 fur	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 fur	nmod:poss
7	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the water					for their fur; bad property	tree rules

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