Test 10 · ★★★ · Thinking like an animal

dog keeps chasing the cyclists, why

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: keep, chase · To what, where: cyclists

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Thinking like an animal» 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	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	chasing	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keeps	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cyclists	det
5	cyclists	cyclist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chasing	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 why	punct
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 keeps	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	dog						tree rules
2	chase	gerund	dog not said here	the cyclists					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cyclist=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

He's bored of walks

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	3 bored	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	aux:pass
3	bored	bore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 walks	case
5	walks	walk	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bored	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bore	present · passive		He				of walks	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Instinct to chase things that run

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Instinct	instinct	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 chase	mark
3	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Instinct	acl
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chase	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 run	nsubj
6	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 things	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	to-infinitive		things					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	run	present	things						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He wants a bike

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	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bike	det
4	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	He	a bike					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bike=Theme

Option 4

He thinks they are lost and wants to help

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	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lost	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	aux:pass
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thinks	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wants	cc
7	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 thinks	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 help	mark
9	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wants	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	He		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	lose	present · passive		they	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	want	present	He not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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