Test 13 · ★★★ · Thinking like an animal

our dog snapped at me when he hurt his paw

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: snap, hurt · To what, where: paw

This is test 13 · ★★★ 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	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dog	nmod:poss
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snapped	nsubj
3	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 snapped	obl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 hurt	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hurt	nsubj
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 snapped	parataxis
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 paw	nmod:poss
10	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	past	our dog					at me	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at i=Location
2	hurt	past	dog	dog's paw					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer paw=Patient

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

Dogs never feel pain in their paws, so it wasn't that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feel	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 feel	advmod
3	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feel	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 paws	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 paws	nmod:poss
7	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feel	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 was	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 was	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 was	nsubj
11	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	conj
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 was	advmod
13	that	that	ADV	_	11 was	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not feel	present	Dogs	pain		Dogs's paws			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pain=Theme in paw=Location
2	not be	past	pain					that property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He was just playing

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	4 playing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 playing	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 playing	advmod
4	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past · progressive	He						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Animals in pain may bite even people they love

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bite	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 pain	case
3	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Animals	nmod
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bite	aux
5	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 people	advmod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bite	obj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 love	nsubj
9	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 people	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	may	Animals in pain	people					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
2	love	present	Animals = animal	people not said here					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus

Option 4

He doesn't love you any more

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	4 love	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 love	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 love	advmod
4	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 love	obj
6	any	any	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 love	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not love	present · do-support	He	you					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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