Test 19 · ★★ · Allergies, horses and farm animals

Leo sneezes round dogs and the kids say he's faking to get attention, pass it on

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Leo, kids · What happens: sneeze, say, fake, get, pass on · To what, where: round dogs, attention · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★★ 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	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sneezes	nsubj
2	sneezes	sneeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dogs	amod
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sneezes	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 say	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kids	det
7	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sneezes	conj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 faking	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 faking	aux
11	faking	fake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 say	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 faking	advcl
14	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pass	punct
16	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sneezes	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pass	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	16 pass	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sneeze	present	Leo	round dogs	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the kids		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fake	present · progressive	Leo		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	get	to-infinitive	Leo not said here	attention	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer attention=Stimulus
5	pass on	infinitive		attention	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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 · ← Mova's choice

Pass it on, so he stops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pass	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Pass	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stops	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 stops	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stops	nsubj
7	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pass	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass on	imperative	you not said here	it					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	stop	present	he						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Do not pass it on; pet allergies are real and the rumour is unkind

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 pass	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 pass	advmod
3	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pass	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	3 pass	compound:prt
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 real	punct
7	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 allergies	compound
8	allergies	allergy	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 real	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 real	cop
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pass	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 unkind	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rumour	det
13	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 unkind	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 unkind	cop
15	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 real	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not pass on	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	present	pet allergies		real property	tree rules
3	is	present	the rumour		unkind property	tree rules

Option 3

Pass it on, because everybody knows sneezing round dogs is fake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pass	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Pass	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 knows	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 knows	mark
6	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 knows	nsubj
7	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pass	conj
8	sneezing	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 fake	csubj
9	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dogs	amod
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sneezing	obj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fake	cop
12	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 knows	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pass on	imperative	you not said here	it		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	know	present	everybody			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	sneeze	gerund		round dogs		tree rules
4	is	present	sneezing		fake property	tree rules

Option 4

Pass it on, and add he cried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pass	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Pass	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 add	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 add	cc
6	add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pass	conj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 add	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	pass on	imperative	you not said here	it	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	add speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cry speech: express	past	he		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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