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Test 8 · ★★ · The bulldog next door who never likes you

Mr Doyle says Tank is soft with him and rolls over for belly rubs. What does that tell you?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mr, Tank, that · What happens: say, be, roll over, tell · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Mr Doyle says Tank is soft with him and rolls over for belly rubs.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
2	Doyle	Doyle	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mr	flat
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Tank	Tank	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 soft	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 soft	cop
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 soft	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rolls	cc
10	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
11	over	over	ADV	_	10 rolls	advmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 rubs	case
13	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rubs	compound
14	rubs	rub	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rolls	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mr						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Tank					with Mr; soft property	tree rules
3	roll over	present	Mr not said here					for belly rubs; over property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: What does that tell you?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	that		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Tank will roll over for anyone who rubs his belly the right way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tank	Tank	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 roll	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 roll	aux
3	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	over	over	ADV	_	3 roll	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 anyone	case
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 roll	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 rubs	nsubj
8	rubs	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 anyone	acl:relcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 belly	nmod:poss
10	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rubs	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 way	amod
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rubs	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll over	future	Tank					for anyone; over property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rub	present		Tank's belly				the right way obl:unmarked	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent belly=Theme

Option 2

Belly rubs work on all dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rubs	compound
2	rubs	rub	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 work	nsubj
3	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 dogs	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 dogs	det
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Belly rubs					on all dogs	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on dog=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Tank is only pretending to growl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tank	Tank	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pretending	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pretending	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 pretending	advmod
4	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 growl	mark
6	growl	growl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pretending	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	present · progressive	Tank						tree rules
2	growl	to-infinitive	Tank not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A dog can be gentle with its family and fierce with others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gentle	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 gentle	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 gentle	cop
5	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 family	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 family	nmod:poss
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gentle	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fierce	cc
10	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gentle	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 others	case
12	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fierce	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	a dog					with dog's family; gentle property	tree rules
2	be		a dog not said here					with others	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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