Test 5 · ★ · A pet is a responsibility
A collar is so loose it slips over the dog's head. What could happen?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: collar · What happens: be, slip, happen · To what, where: head
This is test 5 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A collar is so loose it slips over the dog's head.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 collar | det |
| 2 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loose | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 loose | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 loose | advmod |
| 5 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 slips | nsubj |
| 7 | slips | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 loose | acl:relcl |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dog | det |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 dog | case |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slips | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 loose | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a collar | loose property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slip | present | collar | the dog's head | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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: What could happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | could | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Nothing, a loose collar is best
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 best | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 collar | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 collar | det |
| 4 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 collar | amod |
| 5 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 best | cop |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nothing | good property | tree rules |
Option 2
The collar will choke the dog when it runs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 collar | det |
| 2 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 choke | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 choke | aux |
| 4 | choke | choke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 choke | obj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 runs | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 runs | nsubj |
| 9 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 choke | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choke | future | the collar | the dog | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dog=Destination | ||||
| 2 | run | present | collar | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The dog could slip it off and get lost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slip | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 slip | aux |
| 4 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 slip | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 slip | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 get | cc |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 slip | conj |
| 9 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 get | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip off | could | the dog | it | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | the dog not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | lose | participle | the dog not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
The dog's fur will stop growing under it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fur | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 dog | case |
| 4 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stop | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 stop | aux |
| 6 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 stop | xcomp |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 growing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | future | the dog's fur | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | the dog's fur not said here | fur | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under it=Location |
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