A girl in Ohio is bitten by a neighbour's dog. It is only a small wound. What should she do?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog, girl · What happens: bite, be, do · To what, where: girl, small wound
This is test 1 of lesson 83 «Doctors, cuts and grazes» 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 girl in Ohio is bitten by a neighbour's dog.
vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
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.
vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Beneficiary from everyone=Eventuality
Option 3
Bite the dog back gently
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Bite
bite
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
2
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
3 dog
det
3
dog
dog
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Bite
obj
4
back
back
ADV
_
1 Bite
advmod
5
gently
gently
ADV
_
1 Bite
advmod
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
bite back
imperative
you not said here
the dog
gently property
vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Tell an adult; a bite may need a check-up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Tell
tell
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
2
an
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
3 adult
det
3
adult
adult
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Tell
obj
4
;
;
PUNCT
_
8 need
punct
5
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
6 bite
det
6
bite
bite
NOUN
Number=Sing
8 need
nsubj
7
may
may
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
8 need
aux
8
need
need
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
1 Tell
parataxis
9
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
12 up
det
10
check
check
NOUN
Number=Sing
12 up
compound
11
-
-
PUNCT
_
12 up
punct
12
up
up
NOUN
Number=Sing
8 need
obj
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
tellspeech: assert
imperative
you not said here
a adult
vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2
need
may
a bite
a check up
vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot up=Theme
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.