Test 10 · ★ · Pets and farm animals

Why do people keep believing pet myths even when they love their animals?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: people · What happens: keep, believe, love · To what, where: believing pet myths, animals

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 7 «Pets and farm animals» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 keep	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	believing	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 myths	amod
6	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 myths	compound
7	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	obj
8	even	even	ADV	_	11 love	advmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 love	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 love	nsubj
11	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	advcl
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 animals	nmod:poss
13	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 love	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	present · do-support	people	believing pet myths	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myth=Theme
2	believe	gerund			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	love	present	people	people's animals	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus

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

Old habits and pictures make the wrong idea look normal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 habits	amod
2	habits	habit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 pictures	cc
4	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 habits	conj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 idea	det
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 idea	amod
8	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 make	xcomp
10	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Old habits and pictures	the wrong idea					tree rules
2	look	infinitive	the wrong idea not said here					normal property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Animals tell them the myths are true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tell	nsubj
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 myths	det
5	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 true	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 true	cop
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Animals		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	is	present	the myths					true property	tree rules

Option 3

Pets like the wrong food better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 better	obl:unmarked
2	like	like	ADP	_	5 food	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 food	det
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pets	nmod
6	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Vets agree with all the old sayings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vets	vet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 agree	nsubj
2	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	7 sayings	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 sayings	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sayings	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sayings	amod
7	sayings	saying	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 agree	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	Vets					with all old sayings	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with saying=Co-Agent

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