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Test 9 · ★★ · Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet

A dog has become fat from lots of treats. Which plan helps it most?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog, plan · What happens: become, help · To what, where: dog

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 64 «Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet» 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: A dog has become fat from lots of treats.

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	4 become	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 become	xcomp
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 lots	case
7	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fat	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 treats	case
9	treats	treat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lots	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 become	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present · perfect	a dog					fat property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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: Which plan helps it most?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 plan	det
2	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helps	nsubj
3	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 helps	obj
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 helps	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 helps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	which plan	dog					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Double treats so it is not sad about being fat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 treats	amod
2	treats	treat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sad	nsubj
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 sad	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sad	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sad	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 sad	advmod
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 fat	case
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 fat	cop
10	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Double treats					sad property	tree rules
2	is	gerund						fat property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fewer treats and more walks and play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 treats	amod
2	treats	treat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 walks	cc
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 walks	amod
5	walks	walk	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 treats	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 play	cc
7	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 treats	conj

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

Option 3

Sleep more to save energy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Sleep	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 save	mark
4	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sleep	advcl
5	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	imperative	you not said here	more					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme
2	save	to-infinitive	you not said here	energy					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme

Option 4

Eat only cake on Sundays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 cake	advmod
3	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eat	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 Sundays	case
5	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 Eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	cake			sunday		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient

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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