Test 2 · ★★ · The bulldog next door who never likes you
You're on the top bar of the fence and Tank is running at you. What would most likely happen if you jumped in?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, Tank · What happens: be, run, happen, jump in · To what, where: top bar
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 456 «The bulldog next door who never likes you» 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
Sentence 1: You're on the top bar of the fence and Tank is running at you.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 bar | nsubj |
| 2 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bar | cop |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 bar | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bar | det |
| 5 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bar | amod |
| 6 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fence | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fence | det |
| 9 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bar | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 running | cc |
| 11 | Tank | Tank | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 running | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 running | aux |
| 13 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 bar | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 running | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bar | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | the top bar | of the fence | tree rules | |||
| 2 | run | present · progressive | Tank | 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.
Sentence 2: What would most likely happen if you jumped in?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | aux |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 likely | advmod |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 5 happen | advmod |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 jumped | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 jumped | nsubj |
| 8 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 jumped | compound:prt |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | likely property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | jump in a condition, not said to happen | past | you | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
He'd run off scared of you
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 run | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 run | aux |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 run | compound:prt |
| 5 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 run | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 scared | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | would | He | scared property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
He'd stop and wag his tail at you
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 stop | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stop | aux |
| 3 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wag | cc |
| 5 | wag | wag | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stop | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tail | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wag | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 wag | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | would | He | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | wag | infinitive | He not said here | his tail | at you | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
You'd likely be bitten
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 bitten | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bitten | aux |
| 3 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 5 bitten | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bitten | aux:pass |
| 5 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | would · passive | You | likely property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 4
Mr Doyle would be pleased
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 2 | Doyle | Doyle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mr | flat |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pleased | cop |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | Mr | pleased property | tree rules |
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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