Test 9 · ★ · Cats and dogs up close

Why is a hug around the neck a bad idea even with a gentle family dog?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: hug, neck

This is test 9 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 hug	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hug	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hug	det
4	hug	hug	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	around	around	ADP	_	7 neck	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 neck	det
7	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hug	nmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 idea	det
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 idea	amod
10	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hug	conj
11	even	even	ADV	_	16 dog	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	16 dog	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 dog	det
14	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dog	amod
15	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dog	compound
16	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 idea	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hug	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a hug and a bad idea with a gentle family dog		the neck			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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Dogs only like hugs from adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hugs	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 hugs	advmod
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 hugs	case
4	hugs	hug	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 adults	case
6	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hugs	nmod

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

Option 2

It makes the dog's fur fall out

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fur	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 dog	case
6	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
7	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	conj
8	out	out	ADV	_	7 fall	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the dog's fur					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material fur=Product
2	fall out	present						out property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Dogs do not feel anything when they are hugged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feel	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 feel	advmod
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 feel	obj
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 hugged	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hugged	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hugged	aux:pass
9	hugged	hug	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 feel	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not feel	present · do-support	Dogs	anything					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
2	hug	present · passive		Dogs = dog					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Most dogs feel trapped and some may bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 dogs	amod
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feel	nsubj
3	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 feel	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bite	cc
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 bite	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 bite	aux
8	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trapped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	feel	present	Most dogs	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	trap	participle	Most dogs not said here	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	bite	may	some	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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