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Test 3 · ★ · Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo…

Grandma's old dog growls when the family's new puppy arrives. What is the best thing to do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old dog, new puppy, best thing · What happens: growl, arrive, be, do

This is test 3 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Grandma's old dog growls when the family's new puppy arrives.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dog	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Grandma	case
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dog	amod
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 growls	nsubj
5	growls	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 arrives	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 family	det
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 puppy	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 family	case
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 puppy	amod
11	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 arrives	nsubj
12	arrives	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 growls	advcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 growls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	growl	present	Grandma's old dog						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	arrive	present	the family's new puppy						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: What is the best thing to do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best thing						tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the best thing not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Shut them in a cupboard together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shut	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 cupboard	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cupboard	det
5	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shut	obl
6	together	together	ADV	_	1 Shut	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut	imperative	you not said here	them = they		a cupboard		together property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Let them get used to each other slowly with an adult watching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 get	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 each	case
6	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 used	obl
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	fixed
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 get	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 adult	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 adult	det
11	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl
12	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	them = they					tree rules
2	get	infinitive	them = they not said here					with a adult; slowly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	use	participle	them = they not said here					to each	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	watch	gerund	them = they not said here						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Give the old dog away at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dog	amod
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	1 Give	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	the old dog				away property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Shout at the old dog until it stops growling and leaves the puppy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 dog	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dog	amod
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shout	obl
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 stops	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stops	nsubj
8	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Shout	advcl
9	growling	growl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 stops	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 leaves	cc
11	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stops	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 puppy	det
13	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leaves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here					at the old dog	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stop	present	dog						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	growl	gerund	dog not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	leave	present	dog not said here	the puppy					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puppy=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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