Test 10 · ★ · Walking on the pavement and crossing roads

Which is a good reason not to pat a dog tied up outside a shop?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, not pat, tie up · To what, where: good reason, dog

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 266 «Walking on the pavement and crossing roads» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 reason	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 reason	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reason	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 pat	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 pat	mark
8	pat	pat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 reason	acl:relcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pat	obj
11	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 dog	acl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 tied	compound:prt
13	outside	outside	ADP	_	15 shop	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 shop	det
15	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tied	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a good reason		tree rules
2	not pat	to-infinitive	a dog		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Experiencer
3	tie up	participle	a dog not said here	outside a shop	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

It will run away if you touch it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 run	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 run	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 touch	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 touch	nsubj
7	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 run	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	future	It					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	touch a condition, not said to happen	present	you	it					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

Option 2

Dogs never like to be patted by anyone they do not know at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 like	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 like	advmod
3	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 patted	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 patted	aux:pass
6	patted	pat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 like	xcomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 anyone	case
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 patted	obl:agent
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 know	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 know	advmod
12	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 anyone	acl:relcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 know	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	not like	present	Dogs		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	pat not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	anyone		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not know	present · do-support	Dogs = dog	all	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Its owner might give you a reward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 owner	nmod:poss
2	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 reward	det
7	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	might	Its owner	a reward	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient reward=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Alone and tied up, it may be nervous and snap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alone	alone	ADV	_	3 tied	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 tied	cc
3	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 tied	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tied	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 nervous	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 nervous	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 nervous	cop
9	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tied	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 snap	cc
11	snap	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 nervous	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	tie up	participle		alone property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	is	may	it	nervous property	tree rules
3	snap	present			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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