Test 8 · ★ · How pets feel and saying goodbye
A dog left alone with no toys has dug holes and torn up a cushion. What is it most likely feeling?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: leave, dig, tear up, be · To what, where: dog, cushion
This is test 8 · ★ 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 dog left alone with no toys has dug holes and torn up a cushion.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dug | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dog | acl |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 left | xcomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 toys | case |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 toys | det |
| 7 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 left | obl |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dug | aux |
| 9 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dug | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 torn | cc |
| 12 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 dug | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 torn | compound:prt |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cushion | det |
| 15 | cushion | cushion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 torn | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dug | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | a dog not said here | with no toys; alone property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with toy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dig | present · perfect · passive | a dog | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary hole=Result | |||||
| 3 | tear up | participle | a cushion | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cushion=Theme |
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 is it most likely feeling?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 feeling | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 feeling | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 feeling | nsubj |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 feeling | advmod |
| 5 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 6 feeling | advmod |
| 6 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 feeling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | dog | feel, likely property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Hungry for cushions
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 cushions | case |
| 3 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hungry | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Proud and happy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 happy | cc |
| 3 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Proud | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Bored and unhappy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 unhappy | cc |
| 3 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Bored | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Sleepy and calm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 calm | cc |
| 3 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Sleepy | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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