Test 18 · ★★ · Allergies, horses and farm animals

my aunty says their poodle's 100% allergy-free so nobody can react to it

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: aunty, nobody · What happens: say, react · To what, where: poodle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 aunty	nmod:poss
2	aunty	aunty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 poodle	nmod:poss
5	poodle	poodle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 free	nsubj
6	's	's	PART	_	5 poodle	case
7	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 %	nummod
8	%	%	SYM	Number=Sing	11 free	obl:unmarked
9	allergy	allergy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 free	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 allergy	punct
11	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
12	so	so	SCONJ	_	15 react	mark
13	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 react	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 react	aux
15	react	react	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 free	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 react	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my aunty						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	react	can	nobody		poodle				vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=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.

The options

Option 1

She is right, if it is washed weekly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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 washed	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 washed	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 washed	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 washed	aux:pass
8	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 right	parataxis
9	weekly	weekly	ADV	_	8 washed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					right property	tree rules
2	wash a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		it				weekly property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Not true; no dog is completely allergy-free, though some breeds shed less

The tree, 13 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	_	10 free	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 free	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 free	cop
7	completely	completely	ADV	_	10 free	advmod
8	allergy	allergy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 free	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 allergy	punct
10	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 true	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shed	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 shed	mark
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 breeds	det
14	breeds	breed	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 shed	nsubj:pass
15	shed	shed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 free	advcl
16	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 shed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	no dog					completely, free property	tree rules
2	shed	participle · passive		some breeds				less property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source

Option 3

She is right, small dogs are always safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	_	9 safe	punct
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dogs	amod
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 safe	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 safe	cop
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 safe	advmod
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 right	conj

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

Option 4

She is right, poodles never cause allergies in anybody, whatever their breed or age

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	_	7 cause	punct
5	poodles	poodle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cause	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 cause	advmod
7	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	conj
8	allergies	allergy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cause	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 anybody	case
10	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 cause	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 whatever	punct
12	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 right	parataxis
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 breed	nmod:poss
14	breed	breed	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 whatever	nsubj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 age	cc
16	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 breed	conj

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

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