Test 10 · ★★ · Allergies, horses and farm animals

aunty says her poodle is allergy free so i'll be fine. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: aunty, poodle, i · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 67 «Allergies, horses and farm animals» 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	aunty	aunty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 poodle	nmod:poss
4	poodle	poodle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 free	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 free	cop
6	allergy	allergy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 free	compound
7	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 fine	advmod
9	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 fine	nsubj
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fine	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 fine	cop
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 free	advcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 fine	punct
14	right	right	ADV	_	2 says	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	aunty		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	aunty's poodle	free property	tree rules
3	is	future	i	fine property	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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, small dogs are always safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 safe	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dogs	amod
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 safe	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 safe	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 safe	advmod
7	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	small dogs					always, safe property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, poodles never cause allergies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 cause	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	poodles	poodle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cause	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 cause	advmod
5	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	allergies	allergy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cause	present	poodles	allergies					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition allergy=Patient

Option 3

Yes, if it has been bathed today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 bathed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 bathed	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bathed	nsubj:pass
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bathed	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 bathed	aux:pass
7	bathed	bath	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bathed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bath	present · perfect · passive		it			today		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No dog is fully allergy free, so be careful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 free	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 free	cop
4	fully	fully	ADV	_	6 free	advmod
5	allergy	allergy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 free	compound
6	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 careful	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 careful	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 careful	cop
10	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 free	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	no dog					free, fully property	tree rules
2	is	infinitive	no dog not said here					careful property	tree rules

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