Test 19 · ★★★ · Thinking like an animal

Lucy's dog bit her when it was hurt and people say it's a bad dog now, pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog, people · What happens: bite, hurt, say, be, pass on · To what, where: Lucy, dog, bad dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★★★ 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	Lucy	Lucy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dog	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Lucy	case
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bit	nsubj
4	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hurt	obl
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bit	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 hurt	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hurt	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hurt	aux:pass
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 say	cc
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hurt	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 dog	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 dog	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 dog	det
16	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 dog	amod
17	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	ccomp
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 say	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pass	punct
20	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 say	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pass	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	20 pass	compound:prt
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 hurt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	bite	past	Lucy's dog	Lucy		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2	hurt	past · passive		dog		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	say speech: assert	present	people		now	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	dog	a bad dog		tree rules
5	pass on	infinitive		dog		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, because any dog that bites is bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 bad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bad	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 bad	mark
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bad	nsubj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 bites	nsubj
7	bites	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dog	acl:relcl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bad	cop
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	any dog						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	any dog					bad property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, and say it bites everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 say	cc
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bites	nsubj
6	bites	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	ccomp
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 bites	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bite	present	it	everyone					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No; an animal in pain may bite even someone it loves, and the gossip is unfair

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 bite	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 bite	punct
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 animal	det
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bite	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 pain	case
6	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 animal	nmod
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 bite	aux
8	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 someone	advmod
10	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 bite	obj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 loves	nsubj
12	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 someone	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 unfair	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 unfair	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gossip	det
16	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 unfair	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 unfair	cop
18	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bite	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bite	may	a animal in pain	someone		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient
2	love	present	animal			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	the gossip		unfair property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, so nobody visits Lucy's house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 visits	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 visits	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 visits	advmod
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 visits	nsubj
5	visits	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Lucy	Lucy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 house	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Lucy	case
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 visits	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	present	nobody	Lucy's house					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Co-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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