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Test 9 · ★★ · The bulldog next door who never likes you

Sam tried everything and Tank still growls a year later. What's the grown-up way to see it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sam, Tank, grown way · What happens: try, growl, be, grow up, see · To what, where: everything, way

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: Sam tried everything and Tank still growls a year later.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 tried	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 growls	cc
5	Tank	Tank	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 growls	nsubj
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 growls	advmod
7	growls	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 growls	obl:unmarked
10	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 growls	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	Sam	everything					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
2	growl	present	Tank				still; year	late property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: What's the grown-up way to see it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 way	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 grown	compound:prt
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 way	acl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the grown way						tree rules
2	grow up	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive	the grown way not said here	way					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

The options

Option 1

Sam must be doing something wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 doing	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 doing	aux
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 doing	obj
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 something	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	must · progressive	Sam	something					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality

Option 2

Tank will suddenly change one day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tank	Tank	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 change	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 change	aux
3	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 change	advmod
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	nummod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 change	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	future	Tank				day	suddenly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Sam should keep feeding him till he does

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 keep	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	feeding	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feeding	iobj
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 does	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 does	nsubj
8	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	should	Sam						tree rules
2	feed	gerund	Sam not said here		Sam				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	do	present	Sam						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Not every dog will like you, and that's alright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 like	advmod
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 like	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 like	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 alright	cc
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 alright	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 alright	cop
11	alright	alright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 like	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	future	every dog	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme
2	is	present	that					alright 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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