Test 3 · ★ · Dogs and rabbits in your care

Why might a gentle family dog bite its owner after being hit by a bike?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gentle family dog, bike · What happens: bite, hit · To what, where: owner

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 bite	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 bite	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dog	det
4	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dog	amod
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dog	compound
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bite	nsubj
7	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 owner	nmod:poss
9	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bite	obj
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 hit	mark
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 hit	aux:pass
12	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 bite	advcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 bike	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bike	det
15	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hit	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 bite	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	might	a gentle family dog	dog's owner					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owner=Patient
2	hit	gerund · passive	a bike						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It thinks the owner hit it with the bike

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 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 owner	det
4	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hit	nsubj
5	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thinks	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hit	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 bike	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bike	det
9	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	It						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hit	past	the owner	it				with the bike	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with bike=Instrument

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A dog in pain may bite even people it loves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bite	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 pain	case
4	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dog	nmod
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 bite	aux
6	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 people	advmod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bite	obj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 loves	nsubj
10	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 people	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	may	a dog in pain	people					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
2	love	present	dog	people not said here					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus

Option 3

Dogs always bite after a shock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bite	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 bite	advmod
3	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 shock	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shock	det
6	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	Dogs				after a shock	always property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It wants to make the owner go away forever

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 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 owner	det
6	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wants	parataxis
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	forever	forever	ADV	_	7 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	It			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	make	to-infinitive		the owner		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset owner=Product
3	go away	present			away, forever property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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