Test 10 · ★★ · Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home
Noah's dog has a warm, dry nose but is eating, drinking and playing normally. What's most likely?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: have, eat, drink, play, be · To what, where: warm dry nose
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 12 «Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home» of the myths 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: Noah's dog has a warm, dry nose but is eating, drinking and playing normally.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dog | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Noah | case |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 nose | det |
| 6 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 nose | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 warm | punct |
| 8 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 nose | amod |
| 9 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 eating | cc |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 eating | aux |
| 12 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 has | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drinking | punct |
| 14 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 eating | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 playing | cc |
| 16 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 eating | conj |
| 17 | normally | normally | ADV | _ | 16 playing | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Noah's dog | a warm dry nose | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient | ||||
| 2 | eat | present · progressive | Noah's dog not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drink | gerund | Noah's dog not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | play | gerund | Noah's dog not said here | normally property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
Sentence 2: What's most likely?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 likely | advmod |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 1 What | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | likely property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
He is too hot and needs an ice bath
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hot | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hot | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 hot | advmod |
| 4 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 needs | cc |
| 6 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hot | conj |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bath | det |
| 8 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bath | compound |
| 9 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 needs | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need | present | He not said here | a ice bath | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bath=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
He's probably fine; nose temperature changes through the day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fine | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fine | cop |
| 3 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 4 fine | advmod |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 changes | punct |
| 6 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 temperature | compound |
| 7 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 changes | nsubj |
| 8 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fine | conj |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 changes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | fine, probably property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | change | present | nose temperature | day | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
He is definitely ill and needs pills from the vet straight away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ill | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ill | cop |
| 3 | definitely | definitely | ADV | _ | 4 ill | advmod |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 needs | cc |
| 6 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ill | conj |
| 7 | pills | pill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 needs | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 vet | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 vet | det |
| 10 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 needs | obl |
| 11 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 12 away | advmod |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 needs | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | definitely, ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need | present | He not said here | pills | the vet | away property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pill=Theme |
Option 4
He has lost his sense of smell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | aux |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sense | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 smell | case |
| 7 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sense | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present · perfect | He | his sense of smell | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | sense | his = he | smell | nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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