Test 10 · ★ · Facing fears

dog barking at me thru the fence, gonna leg it past

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog, leg · What happens: bark, leg · To what, where: fence

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 90 «Facing fears» 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	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	barking	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 dog	acl
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 barking	obl
5	thru	through	ADP	Abbr=Yes	7 fence	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fence	det
7	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 barking	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 leg	punct
9	gonna	gonna	X	_	10 leg	compound
10	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dog	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 leg	nsubj
12	past	past	ADV	_	10 leg	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	gerund	dog and gonna leg not said here			the fence		at me	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at i=Stimulus
2	leg		leg					past 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 · ✓ the right answer

Walk past slowly and calmly without staring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	past	past	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 calmly	cc
5	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	3 slowly	conj
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 staring	mark
7	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Walk	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here					past, slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stare	gerund	you not said here						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Run as fast as you can past it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 fast	advmod
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Run	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 past	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 past	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 past	aux
7	past	past	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fast	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 past	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	past	can	you	it					tree rules

Option 3

Stare right at it to show who is boss and make it back off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stare	stare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	right	right	ADV	_	1 Stare	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Stare	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 show	mark
6	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Stare	advcl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 boss	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 boss	cop
9	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 show	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 make	cc
11	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stare	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 make	obj
13	back	back	ADV	_	14 off	advmod
14	off	off	ADV	_	11 make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stare	imperative	you not said here		at it; right property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
2	show	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		boss		tree rules
4	make	infinitive	you not said here	boss	off property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 4

Bark back at it to scare it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bark	bark	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Bark	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Bark	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 scare	mark
6	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Bark	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scare	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	6 scare	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark back	imperative	you not said here					at it	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at it=Stimulus
2	scare off	to-infinitive	you not said here	it					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

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