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Test 8 · ★ · The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does

«rottweilers are killers, everyone knows». How should you judge a dog?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rottweilers, everyone, you · What happens: be, know, judge · To what, where: killers, dog

This is test 8 · ★ 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: «rottweilers are killers, everyone knows».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 rottweilers	punct
2	rottweilers	rottweiler	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 killers	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 killers	cop
4	killers	killer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 knows	punct
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 knows	nsubj
7	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 killers	acl:relcl
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 knows	punct
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 killers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	rottweilers	killers					tree rules
2	know in a quote	present	everyone	killers not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer killer=Stimulus

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: How should you judge a dog?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 judge	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 judge	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 judge	nsubj
4	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 judge	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 judge	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	judge	should	you	a dog					vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent dog=Value

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

By its breed alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 breed	case
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 breed	nmod:poss
3	breed	breed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 breed	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

By how big its head and teeth are, mostly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 big	case
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 big	advmod
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 big	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 teeth	cc
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 head	conj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 big	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mostly	punct
10	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	3 big	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	its head and teeth					big property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

By how it behaves with its owner there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	4 behaves	mark
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 behaves	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 behaves	nsubj
4	behaves	behave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 owner	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 owner	nmod:poss
7	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 behaves	obl
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 behaves	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	behave	present	it			there		with its owner	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

Option 4

By what your mates say about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mates	nmod:poss
4	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	your mates					about it	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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