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Test 5 · ★ · How pets feel and saying goodbye

A family's dog has a painful illness that cannot be cured. Why might the vet suggest putting it to sleep?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog, vet · What happens: have, not cure, put, sleep · To what, where: painful illness, illness

This is test 5 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A family's dog has a painful illness that cannot be cured.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dog	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 family	case
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 illness	det
7	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 illness	amod
8	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 cured	nsubj:pass
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 cured	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 cured	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 cured	aux:pass
13	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 illness	acl:relcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a family's dog	a painful illness					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Patient
2	not cure	can · passive		a painful illness					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source

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: Why might the vet suggest putting it to sleep?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 putting	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 putting	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 vet	det
4	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 putting	nsubj
5	suggest	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 putting	aux
6	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 putting	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sleep	mark
9	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 putting	advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 putting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	might	the vet	illness					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
2	sleep	to-infinitive	the vet not said here						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Because old dogs must always be put to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	7 put	mark
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dogs	amod
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 put	nsubj:pass
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 put	aux
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 put	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 put	aux:pass
7	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sleep	mark
9	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 put	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	must · passive		old dogs				always property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
2	sleep	to-infinitive							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Because the vet is too busy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 busy	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 vet	det
3	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 busy	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 busy	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 busy	advmod
6	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the vet					busy property	tree rules

Option 3

To give it a rest before it gets better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 give	mark
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 give	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rest	det
5	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 gets	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gets	nsubj
8	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 give	advcl
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	to-infinitive		it					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient rest=Theme
2	get	present	rest					good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To end its suffering painlessly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 end	mark
2	end	end	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 suffering	nmod:poss
4	suffering	suffering	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 end	obj
5	painlessly	painlessly	ADV	_	2 end	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	to-infinitive		its suffering				painlessly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality suffering=Eventuality
2	suffer		its = it						nom suffering «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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