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Test 6 · ★ · Cats and dogs up close

It is a sunny July afternoon in Phoenix and the sidewalk feels burning to the back of your hand. What does this mean for a dog walk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: It, sidewalk, this · What happens: be, feel, burn, mean, walk · To what, where: sunny July afternoon, Phoenix · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 61 «Cats and dogs up close» 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: It is a sunny July afternoon in Phoenix and the sidewalk feels burning to the back of your hand.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 afternoon	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 afternoon	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 afternoon	det
4	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 afternoon	amod
5	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 afternoon	compound
6	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Phoenix	case
8	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 afternoon	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 feels	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sidewalk	det
11	sidewalk	sidewalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feels	nsubj
12	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 afternoon	conj
13	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 feels	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 back	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 back	det
16	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 burning	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 hand	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hand	nmod:poss
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 back	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 afternoon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a sunny July afternoon		Phoenix			tree rules
2	feel	present	the sidewalk						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	burn	gerund	the sidewalk not said here					to the back of your hand	vn light_emission-43.1 «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 this mean for a dog walk?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 dog	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walk	obl
8	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 mean	ccomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	this						tree rules
2	walk	infinitive						for a dog	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

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

It could burn the dog's paws, so wait or use the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 burn	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 burn	aux
3	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 paws	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 dog	case
7	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 burn	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wait	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 wait	advmod
10	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 burn	parataxis
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 use	cc
12	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 wait	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 grass	det
14	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	could	It	the dog's paws					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent paw=Theme
2	wait	infinitive							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	use	infinitive		the grass					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient

Option 2

A walk is fine if the dog walks fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 walk	det
2	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 walks	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walks	nsubj
8	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	advcl
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 walks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a walk					fine property	tree rules
2	walk a condition, not said to happen	present	the dog					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Only puppies can be burned by pavements

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 puppies	advmod
2	puppies	puppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 burned	nsubj:pass
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 burned	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 burned	aux:pass
5	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 pavements	case
7	pavements	pavement	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	can · passive	pavements	puppies					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 4

Dogs' paws never feel heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 paws	nmod:poss
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Dogs	case
3	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 feel	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 feel	advmod
5	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feel	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not feel	present	Dogs's paws	heat					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=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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