Test 5 · ★ · Wild birds, bats and germs from animals

Why do parks ask dog owners to pick up after their dogs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: parks, dog owners · What happens: ask, pick up · To what, where: dog owners

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 29 «Wild birds, bats and germs from 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 ask	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	aux
3	parks	park	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ask	nsubj
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 owners	compound
6	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ask	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 pick	mark
8	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ask	xcomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 pick	compound:prt
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 dogs	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dogs	nmod:poss
12	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pick	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present · do-support	parks	dog owners					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient clause=Topic
2	pick up not said to happen	to-infinitive	dog owners not said here				after parks's dogs		vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: 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

Dog poo is bad luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 poo	compound
2	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 luck	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 luck	cop
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 luck	amod
5	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Dog poo	bad luck					tree rules

Option 2

It makes the park smell nicer for dogs

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 smell	det
4	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smell	compound
5	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
6	nicer	nice	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 dogs	case
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 nicer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the park smell				nice property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material smell=Product

Option 3

It feeds the birds

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	2 feeds	nsubj
2	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birds	det
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feeds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	It		the birds				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Dog poo can spread worm eggs to children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 poo	compound
2	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spread	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spread	aux
4	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eggs	compound
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spread	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 children	case
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	can	Dog poo	worm eggs				to children	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location egg=Theme

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