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Test 2 · ★ · The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does

Kieran: «muzzles are cruel, take it off her, she's sweet». What's the better view?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: muzzles, Kieran, better view · What happens: be, take · To what, where: it

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 459 «The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does» 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: Kieran: «muzzles are cruel, take it off her, she's sweet».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 take	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 cruel	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 cruel	punct
4	muzzles	muzzle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cruel	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cruel	cop
6	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Kieran	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 take	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 take	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sweet	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sweet	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sweet	cop
15	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 take	parataxis
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 sweet	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	muzzles					cruel property	tree rules
2	take in a quote	infinitive	Kieran	it				off her = she	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme off she=Initial_Location
3	is in a quote	present	Kieran					sweet property	tree rules

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 better view?

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	5 view	det
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 view	amod
5	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the better view						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The muzzle keeps people safe and keeps Mitzi at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 muzzle	det
2	muzzle	muzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keeps	obj
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keeps	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 keeps	cc
7	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 keeps	conj
8	Mitzi	Mitzi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 keeps	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 home	case
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the muzzle	people				safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
2	keep	present	the muzzle not said here	Mitzi		home			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mitzi=Theme at home=Location

Option 2

Kieran should hold her mouth shut instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hold	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hold	aux
3	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mouth	nmod:poss
5	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hold	obj
6	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hold	xcomp
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 hold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	should	Kieran	Kieran's mouth				instead, shut property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme

Option 3

Mitzi has never bitten anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mitzi	Mitzi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bitten	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bitten	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 bitten	advmod
4	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 bitten	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bite	present · perfect · passive		Mitzi					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient anyone=Result

Option 4

Muzzles are always cruel, so she should be let free of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Muzzles	muzzle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cruel	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cruel	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 cruel	advmod
4	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 let	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 let	nsubj:pass
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 let	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	aux:pass
10	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cruel	conj
11	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 let	xcomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 free	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Muzzles					always, cruel property	tree rules
2	let	should · passive		she				free property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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