Test 17 · ★ · How pets feel and saying goodbye
my mate says when a vet puts a pet to sleep it's like a long nap and it wakes up later
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, vet · What happens: say, put, sleep, be, wake up · To what, where: pet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 17 · ★ 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 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 puts | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 vet | det |
| 6 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 puts | nsubj |
| 7 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pet | det |
| 9 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 puts | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 sleep | mark |
| 11 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 puts | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 nap | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 nap | cop |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 nap | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 nap | det |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 nap | amod |
| 17 | nap | nap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sleep | ccomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wakes | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wakes | nsubj |
| 20 | wakes | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 wakes | compound:prt |
| 22 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 wakes | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | my mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | put | present | a vet | a pet | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pet=Goal | ||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | a vet not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | vet | like a long nap | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wake up | present | vet | late property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Not true; putting to sleep means the vet ends its suffering painlessly, and it does not wake up
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 true | advmod |
| 2 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| 4 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 means | csubj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 sleep | case |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 putting | obl |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 true | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 vet | det |
| 9 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ends | nsubj |
| 10 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | ccomp |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 suffering | nmod:poss |
| 12 | suffering | suffering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ends | obj |
| 13 | painlessly | painlessly | ADV | _ | 10 ends | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wake | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wake | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wake | nsubj |
| 17 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 wake | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 wake | advmod |
| 19 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 true | parataxis |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 wake | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | gerund | to sleep | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | putting | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | end | present | the vet | vet's suffering | painlessly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality suffering=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | not wake up | present · do-support | vet | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | suffer | vet | nom suffering «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
He is right, it is just a really deep nap and the pet comes home feeling better in a day or so
The tree, 22 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nap | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 nap | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 nap | cop |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 nap | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 nap | det |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 deep | advmod |
| 10 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nap | amod |
| 11 | nap | nap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 comes | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pet | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pet | det |
| 14 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nap | conj |
| 15 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | parataxis |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 comes | advmod |
| 17 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 comes | advcl |
| 18 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 feeling | xcomp |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 day | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 feeling | obl |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 so | cc |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 right | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | a deep nap and the pet | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | present | a deep nap and the pet | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | feel | gerund | a deep nap and the pet not said here | day | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3
He is right, it wakes up next week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wakes | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wakes | nsubj |
| 6 | wakes | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | parataxis |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 wakes | compound:prt |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 week | amod |
| 9 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wakes | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wake up | present | it | week | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
He is right, if it was young
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 young | punct |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 young | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 young | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 young | cop |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 right | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | it | young property | tree rules |
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