Test 7 · ★★ · Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home

Ella's dog Max munches grass on a sunny day, bouncing happily. What does this suggest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog, this · What happens: munch, bounce, suggest · To what, where: grass

This is test 7 · ★★ 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: Ella's dog Max munches grass on a sunny day, bouncing happily.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dog	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ella	case
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 munches	nsubj
4	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dog	appos
5	munches	munch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 munches	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 day	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 day	det
9	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 munches	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bouncing	punct
12	bouncing	bounce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 munches	conj
13	happily	happily	ADV	_	12 bouncing	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 munches	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	munch	present	Ella's dog	grass			day		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
2	bounce	gerund	Ella's dog not said here					happily property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: What does this suggest?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 suggest	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 suggest	aux
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 suggest	nsubj
4	suggest	suggest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 suggest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present · do-support	this						vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Healthy dogs eat grass too, so it isn't a sure sign of illness

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dogs	amod
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sign	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	13 sign	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sign	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sign	cop
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 sign	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sign	det
12	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sign	amod
13	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	parataxis
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 illness	case
15	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sign	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Healthy dogs	grass					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
2	not is a	present	grass	a sure sign				of illness	tree rules

Option 2

Max is out of dog food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 food	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 food	cop
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 food	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 food	case
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 food	compound
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Max			dog food			tree rules

Option 3

Max thinks he's a cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cow	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cow	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cow	det
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thinks	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Max						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Max	a cow					tree rules

Option 4

Max is dying and needs hospital

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dying	aux
3	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 needs	cc
5	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dying	conj
6	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present · progressive	Max						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	need	present	Max not said here	hospital					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hospital=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.

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