Test 16 · ★ · How pets feel and saying goodbye

heard a dog snapped at a kid out of nowhere, it was always friendly, they're saying it's gone bad

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog, they · What happens: hear, snap, be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 66 «How pets feel and saying goodbye» 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	4 snapped	nsubj
4	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 heard	ccomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 kid	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kid	det
7	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snapped	obl
8	out	out	ADP	_	10 nowhere	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 nowhere	case
10	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 snapped	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 friendly	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 friendly	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 friendly	cop
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 friendly	advmod
15	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 heard	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saying	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saying	nsubj
18	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 saying	aux
19	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 heard	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gone	nsubj
21	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 gone	cop
22	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 saying	ccomp
23	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 gone	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hear	past			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	snap	past	a dog	at a kid	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kid=Location
3	is	past	dog	always, friendly property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present · progressive	they		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	dog	gone property	tree rules
6	be		dog not said here		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 · ✓ the right answer

Real lesson: a pet that suddenly snaps is often in pain, so stop touching it and tell an adult

The tree, 19 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	12 pain	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 pet	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pet	det
5	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pain	nsubj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 snaps	nsubj
7	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	8 snaps	advmod
8	snaps	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pet	acl:relcl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 pain	cop
10	often	often	ADV	_	12 pain	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 pain	case
12	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stop	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 stop	advmod
15	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 pain	parataxis
16	touching	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 stop	xcomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 touching	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tell	cc
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 stop	conj
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 adult	det
21	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	snap	present	a pet				suddenly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	Real lesson			pain	often property	tree rules
3	stop	infinitive						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	touch	gerund		pet				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive			a adult			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 2

Real lesson: friendly dogs can just turn bad for no reason at all, so they should all be kept away

The tree, 20 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 turn	punct
4	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dogs	amod
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 turn	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 turn	aux
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 turn	advmod
8	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lesson	appos
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 turn	xcomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 reason	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 reason	det
12	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turn	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 reason	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 kept	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	21 kept	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 kept	nsubj:pass
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 kept	aux
19	all	all	ADV	_	21 kept	advmod
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 kept	aux:pass
21	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 turn	conj
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 kept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	can	friendly dogs					for no reason at all; bad property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	keep away	should · passive		dogs = dog				all, away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It proves old dogs are dangerous

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	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dogs	amod
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dangerous	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dangerous	cop
6	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 proves	ccomp

#	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
2	is	present	old dogs					dangerous property	tree rules

Option 4

It is gossip, so nothing needs doing

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	_	7 needs	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 needs	advmod
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 needs	nsubj
7	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gossip	acl:relcl
8	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 needs	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	It	gossip	tree rules
2	need	present	nothing	gossip not said here	tree rules
3	do not said to happen	gerund	gossip not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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