Test 10 · Caring for pets

can the dog have a bit of my chocolate

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog · What happens: have · To what, where: bit

This is test 10 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 chocolate	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 chocolate	nmod:poss
9	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	can	the dog	a bit of my chocolate					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=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

Yes, if it's a treat day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 day	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 day	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 day	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 day	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 day	compound
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a treat day					tree rules

Option 2

Yes, dark chocolate only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 dark	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chocolate	amod
4	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	4 chocolate	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Yes, just a small piece is fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 piece	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 piece	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 piece	amod
6	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fine	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fine	cop
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a small piece					fine property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, chocolate can poison dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 chocolate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poison	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 poison	aux
5	poison	poison	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 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

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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