Test 1 · Caring for pets
Zoe in Vancouver wants to share her chocolate bar with her dog as a treat. Why should she not?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Zoe · What happens: want, share · To what, where: chocolate bar
This is test 1 of lesson 27 «Caring for pets» 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
Sentence 1: Zoe in Vancouver wants to share her chocolate bar with her dog as a treat.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zoe | Zoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Vancouver | case |
| 3 | Vancouver | Vancouver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Zoe | nmod |
| 4 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 share | mark |
| 6 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wants | xcomp |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bar | nmod:poss |
| 8 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bar | compound |
| 9 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 share | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 dog | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 dog | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 share | obl |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 treat | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 treat | det |
| 15 | treat | treat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 share | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Zoe in Vancouver | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | share not said to happen | to-infinitive | Zoe in Vancouver not said here | Zoe's chocolate bar | with Zoe's dog; as a treat | 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.
Sentence 2: Why should she not?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 Why | advcl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 not | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 should | ccomp |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Chocolate can poison dogs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 poison | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 poison | aux |
| 3 | poison | poison | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 poison | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | poison | can | Chocolate | dogs | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |
Option 2
Chocolate makes dogs bark all night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | bark | bark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bark | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Chocolate | dogs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bark | infinitive | dogs not said here | night | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
It will make the dog's teeth fall out at once
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 make | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 dog | case |
| 7 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fall | nsubj |
| 8 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | parataxis |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 fall | compound:prt |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 once | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 fall | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | future | It | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material | |||||
| 2 | fall out | present | the dog's teeth | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
Option 4
Dogs do not like sweet things
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 like | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 like | advmod |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 things | amod |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 like | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | present · do-support | Dogs | sweet things | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme |
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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