Test 11 · ★ · Dogs and rabbits in your care

threw a stick for the dog, she loves it

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog · What happens: throw, love · To what, where: stick

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 62 «Dogs and rabbits in your care» 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	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stick	det
3	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 threw	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 dog	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 threw	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 loves	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 loves	nsubj
9	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 threw	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 loves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past		a stick				for the dog	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
2	love	present	dog	stick					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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.

The options

Option 1

Any stick is fine as long as it is big and thick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 stick	det
2	stick	stick	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	as	as	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 fine	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 big	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 big	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 big	cop
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fine	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thick	cc
12	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 big	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	any stick	fine, long property	tree rules
2	is	present	stick	big property	tree rules
3	be		stick not said here		tree rules

Option 2

Sticks are the best and safest toy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 best	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 best	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 best	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 toy	cc
6	safest	safe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 toy	amod
7	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 best	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sticks					good property	tree rules

Option 3

Sticks are safe if they are wet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 safe	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	cop
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 wet	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wet	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wet	cop
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 safe	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sticks					safe property	tree rules
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	Sticks = stick					wet property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A ball or rubber toy is safer, sticks splinter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 toy	det
2	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 toy	compound
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 rubber	cc
4	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ball	conj
5	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 safer	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 safer	cop
7	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 splinter	punct
9	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 splinter	nsubj
10	splinter	splinter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 safer	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a ball toy					safe property	tree rules
2	splinter	present	sticks						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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