Test 15 · ★ · Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo…

dog outside the shop looks friendly, can i pat it

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

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 287 «Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals» 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	5 looks	nsubj
2	outside	outside	ADP	_	4 shop	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shop	det
4	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dog	nmod
5	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looks	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pat	punct
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 pat	aux
9	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 pat	nsubj
10	pat	pat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 looks	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	dog outside the shop					friendly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	pat	can	i	dog					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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 wags its tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 wags	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wags	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 wags	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wags	nsubj
5	wags	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tail	nmod:poss
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wags	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wag	present	it	its tail					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

Option 2

Yes, all tied dogs are friendly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 friendly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 dogs	det
4	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 dogs	amod
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 friendly	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 friendly	cop
7	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle							vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	all tied dogs					friendly property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, if you go up slowly and quietly from behind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 go	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 quietly	cc
9	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	7 slowly	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 behind	case
11	behind	behind	ADV	_	5 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	present	you					slowly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

No, ask the owner first, a scared dog may bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 ask	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 owner	det
5	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ask	obj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 ask	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bite	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dog	det
9	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dog	amod
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bite	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 bite	aux
12	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ask	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	the owner				first property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient
2	bite	may	a scared dog						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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