Test 17 · ★ · Dogs and rabbits in your care

heard a dog choked on a stick at the park and the vet had to operate, it was so bad

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: vet · What happens: hear, choke, have, operate, be · To what, where: dog, stick

This is test 17 · ★ 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	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 heard	obj
4	choked	choke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dog	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 stick	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stick	det
7	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 choked	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 park	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 park	det
10	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stick	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 vet	det
13	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 heard	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 operate	mark
16	operate	operate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bad	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bad	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 bad	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 bad	advmod
21	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 heard	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past		a dog			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus
2	choke	participle		a dog not said here	a stick at the park		vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	have	past	the vet				tree rules
4	operate	to-infinitive	the vet not said here				vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	vet			bad property	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 · ✓ the right answer

Real lesson: sticks can splinter and stab a dog's mouth, so throw a ball

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lesson	amod
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 splinter	punct
4	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 splinter	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 splinter	aux
6	splinter	splinter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lesson	parataxis
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stab	cc
8	stab	stab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 splinter	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mouth	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 dog	case
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stab	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 throw	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 throw	advmod
15	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 splinter	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 ball	det
17	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 throw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	splinter	can	sticks		vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	stab	infinitive	sticks not said here	a dog's mouth	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient
3	throw	infinitive	sticks not said here	a ball	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme

Option 2

It is gossip, so sticks are fine

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 gossip	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gossip	cop
3	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fine	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 fine	advmod
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fine	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fine	cop
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gossip	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	gossip					tree rules
2	is	present	sticks	gossip not said here				fine property	tree rules

Option 3

Real lesson: dogs should never be allowed to play at parks without a muzzle on

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lesson	amod
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 allowed	punct
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 allowed	nsubj:pass
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 allowed	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 allowed	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 allowed	aux:pass
8	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lesson	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 play	mark
10	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 allowed	xcomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 parks	case
12	parks	park	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 play	obl
13	without	without	ADP	_	15 muzzle	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 muzzle	det
15	muzzle	muzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 play	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	10 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	should · passive		dogs					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	dogs not said here			parks		without a muzzle	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It proves vets operate on every dog

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 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	vets	vet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 operate	nsubj
4	operate	operate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 proves	ccomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 dog	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 operate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	operate	present	vets					on every dog	vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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