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Test 7 · ★ · The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does

«the shop dog only likes jake now cos jake bribed him». What really happened?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: shop dog, jake · What happens: like, co, bribe, happen · To what, where: dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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: «the shop dog only likes jake now cos jake bribed him».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 likes	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
3	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dog	compound
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 likes	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 likes	advmod
6	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	jake	jake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cos	nsubj
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 cos	advmod
9	cos	co	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 likes	conj
10	jake	jake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bribed	nsubj
11	bribed	bribe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cos	ccomp
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bribed	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 bribed	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 likes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like in a quote	present	the shop dog						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	co in a quote	present	jake				now		tree rules
3	bribe in a quote	past	jake	dog					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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 really happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happened	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 happened	advmod
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Jake gave Rocky sausages daily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sausages	amod
4	sausages	sausage	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obj
5	daily	daily	ADV	_	2 gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	Jake	Rocky sausages				daily property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sausage=Theme

Option 2

Jake hypnotised him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hypnotised	nsubj
2	hypnotised	hypnotis	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hypnotised	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hypnotis	past	Jake	him = he					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Rocky saw his owner trusted Jake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rocky	Rocky	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 owner	nmod:poss
4	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trusted	nsubj
5	trusted	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	ccomp
6	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 trusted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Rocky						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	trust	past	Rocky's owner	Jake					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jake=Theme

Option 4

Rocky likes boys who wear hats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rocky	Rocky	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 likes	nsubj
2	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 likes	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 wear	nsubj
5	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 boys	acl:relcl
6	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	Rocky	boys					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot boy=Theme
2	wear	present	boys	hats					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=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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