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Test 4 · ★★ · Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home

Grandad's old dog Rex is eleven. Your uncle says, "No point teaching him anything now." What would happen if you tried for a week with treats?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: old dog, uncle, point, you · What happens: be, say, teach, happen, try · To what, where: eleven, anything, uncle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ 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: Grandad's old dog Rex is eleven.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dog	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Grandad	case
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dog	amod
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eleven	nsubj
5	Rex	Rex	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dog	appos
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 eleven	cop
7	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 eleven	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Grandad's old dog	eleven					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.

Sentence 2: Your uncle says, "No point teaching him anything now."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 uncle	nmod:poss
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 teaching	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 teaching	punct
6	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 point	det
7	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 teaching	nsubj
8	teaching	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 says	ccomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 teaching	obj
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 teaching	obj
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 teaching	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 teaching	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 teaching	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your uncle						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	teach speech: other in a quote	gerund	no point	anything	uncle		now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=Topic

Sentence 3: What would happen if you tried for a week with treats?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 tried	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tried	nsubj
6	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 week	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 week	det
9	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tried	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 treats	case
11	treats	treat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tried	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try a condition, not said to happen	past	you				week	with treats	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

The options

Option 1

Rex would definitely learn nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rex	Rex	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 learn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
3	definitely	definitely	ADV	_	4 learn	advmod
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	Rex	nothing				definitely property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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

Rex could well learn a new trick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rex	Rex	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 learn	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 learn	advmod
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trick	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trick	amod
7	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	could	Rex	a new trick				well property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic

Option 3

Rex would get younger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rex	Rex	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Rex					young property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Rex would forget how to sit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rex	Rex	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 forget	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 forget	aux
3	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sit	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sit	mark
6	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forget	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	would	Rex						tree rules
2	not sit	to-infinitive	Rex not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «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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