Test 18 · ★ · Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo…

did u hear the neighbour's dog ate a whole bar of chocolate off the table and "had to go to the vet in an ambulance". lesson?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: u, dog · What happens: hear, eat, have, go · To what, where: lesson, whole bar, ambulance

This is test 18 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 neighbour	det
5	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dog	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 neighbour	case
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	nsubj
8	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bar	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bar	amod
11	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 chocolate	case
13	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bar	nmod
14	off	off	ADP	_	16 table	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 table	det
16	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ate	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	xcomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 vet	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 vet	det
24	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 go	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 ambulance	case
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 ambulance	det
27	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 go	obl
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 ambulance	punct
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
30	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obl:unmarked
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u	lesson			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	eat	past	the neighbour's dog	a whole bar of chocolate		off the table	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Patient
3	have in a quote	past	the neighbour's dog not said here				tree rules
4	go in a quote	to-infinitive	the neighbour's dog not said here		a ambulance	to the vet	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to vet=Initial_Location

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

Only dark chocolate is bad for dogs, milk chocolate is fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 dark	advmod
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chocolate	amod
3	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bad	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bad	cop
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 dogs	case
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bad	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fine	punct
9	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chocolate	compound
10	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fine	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fine	cop
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	dark chocolate					for dogs; bad property	tree rules
2	is	present	milk chocolate					fine property	tree rules

Option 2

It's only bad for puppies

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	4 bad	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 bad	advmod
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 puppies	case
6	puppies	puppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					for puppies; bad property	tree rules

Option 3

Dogs need a little chocolate as a treat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 chocolate	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chocolate	amod
5	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 treat	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 treat	det
8	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Dogs	a little chocolate				as a treat	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot chocolate=Theme

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

Chocolate can poison dogs; keep it away from them

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
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 poison	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keep	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 keep	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keep	obl

#	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
2	keep away	infinitive	Chocolate not said here	Chocolate				from dogs = dog; away property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Beneficiary from they=Eventuality

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