Test 16 · ★ · A pet is a responsibility

Ivy says pets look after themselves mostly. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ivy, pets · What happens: say, look · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 65 «A pet is a responsibility» 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	Ivy	Ivy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 themselves	case
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 look	obl
7	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	9 true	advmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 true	punct
9	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ivy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	present	pets				after pets = pet	true property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, pets need daily care from their owners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 need	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 care	amod
6	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 owners	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 owners	nmod:poss
9	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	pets	daily care		pets's owners			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme

Option 2

Yes, animals always know exactly what they need

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 know	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 know	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 what	advmod
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 need	obj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 need	nsubj
9	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	animals					always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	need	present	animals = animal						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

Option 3

Yes, only babies need care

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 need	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 babies	advmod
4	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	nsubj
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	babies	care					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme

Option 4

Yes, unless they are dogs or other big pets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 dogs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	6 dogs	case
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dogs	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dogs	cop
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 pets	cc
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pets	amod
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pets	amod
10	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dogs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					unless dogs or other big pets	tree rules

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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