Test 3 · ★★★ · Thinking like an animal

Which is the best reason for being «a tree» when a strange dog runs at you?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: strange dog · What happens: be, run · To what, where: best reason

This is test 3 · ★★★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 reason	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reason	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 reason	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 tree	case
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 tree	cop
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 tree	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reason	nmod
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 tree	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 runs	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dog	det
14	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dog	amod
15	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 runs	nsubj
16	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 runs	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the best reason		tree rules
2	is in a quote	gerund			for a tree	tree rules
3	run	present	a strange dog		at you	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at you=Trajectory

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

Trees are scary to dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scary	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scary	cop
3	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 dogs	case
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scary	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Trees					to dogs; scary property	tree rules

Option 2

Dogs cannot see things that stand still, so you disappear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 stand	nsubj
7	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 things	acl:relcl
8	still	still	ADV	_	7 stand	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 disappear	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 disappear	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 disappear	nsubj
12	disappear	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 see	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not see	can	Dogs	things		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	stand	present	things		still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	disappear	present	you			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It makes the owner come faster

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	4 owner	det
4	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	xcomp
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the owner					tree rules
2	come	present	the owner not said here					fast property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A still person gives the dog nothing to chase

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 person	det
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 person	advmod
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	nsubj
4	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nothing	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nothing	compound
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 gives	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 chase	mark
9	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 nothing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	a person	nothing					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
2	chase	to-infinitive	a person not said here	nothing not said here					vn chase-51.6 «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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