Test 4 · ★★★ · Thinking like an animal

Why should you approach a sleeping dog by calling its name rather than touching it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, dog · What happens: approach, call, touch, name · To what, where: sleeping dog, name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 approach	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 approach	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 approach	nsubj
4	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dog	det
6	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dog	compound
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 approach	obj
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 calling	mark
9	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 approach	advcl
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 name	nmod:poss
11	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 calling	obj
12	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	14 touching	cc
13	than	than	ADP	_	12 rather	fixed
14	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 calling	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 touching	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 approach	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	approach	should	you	a sleeping dog	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
2	call	gerund	you not said here	dog's name	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
3	touch	gerund	you not said here	name	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
4	name		dog		nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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

Sleeping dogs are always angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 dogs	amod
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 angry	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 angry	advmod
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	gerund							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Sleeping dogs					always, angry property	tree rules

Option 2

Dogs never wake up when touched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wake	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 wake	advmod
3	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 wake	compound:prt
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 touched	advmod
6	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wake	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wake up	present	Dogs						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	touch	participle	Dogs not said here						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Waking with a fright can make it snap before it knows who you are

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Waking	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 make	csubj
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 fright	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fright	det
4	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Waking	obl
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	xcomp
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 knows	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 knows	nsubj
11	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	advcl
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	11 knows	ccomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 who	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 who	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wake	gerund			with a fright	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with fright=Instrument
2	make	can	Waking	fright		tree rules
3	snap	infinitive	fright not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	know	present	fright			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	present	you			tree rules

Option 4

It will remember the touch for the rest of its life and never trust you

The tree, 15 words

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	3 remember	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 remember	aux
3	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 touch	det
5	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remember	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 rest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rest	det
8	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remember	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 life	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 life	nmod:poss
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rest	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 trust	cc
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 trust	advmod
14	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 remember	conj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 trust	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	future	It	the touch				for the rest of rest's life	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent touch=Theme
2	not trust	infinitive		you					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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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