Test 13 · Caring for pets

dog hasn't eaten all day and is acting weird

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not eat, act · To what, where: dog

This is test 13 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	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eaten	advmod
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	obl:unmarked
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 acting	cc
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 acting	aux
9	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 eaten	conj
10	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 acting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	present · perfect · passive		dog			day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	act	present · progressive						weird property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Give him chocolate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	chocolate	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient chocolate=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Take him to the vet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 vet	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 vet	det
5	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the vet			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to vet=Destination

Option 3

Wait a few weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 weeks	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 weeks	amod
4	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wait	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here				week		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He's just fussy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fussy	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fussy	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 fussy	advmod
4	fussy	fussy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					fussy property	tree rules

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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