Test 4 · ★ · Pets and farm animals
Your friend's Great Dane and your Chihuahua are both eight. Which is probably "older" in body terms?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Great Dane · What happens: be · To what, where: eight, body terms
This is test 4 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Your friend's Great Dane and your Chihuahua are both eight.
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 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Dane | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 friend | case |
| 4 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Dane | amod |
| 5 | Dane | Dane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 eight | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Chihuahua | cc |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Chihuahua | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Chihuahua | chihuahua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Dane | conj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 eight | cop |
| 10 | both | both | ADV | _ | 11 eight | advmod |
| 11 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 eight | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Your friend's Great Dane and your Chihuahua | eight | both 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.
Sentence 2: Which is probably "older" in body terms?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 older | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 older | cop |
| 3 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 5 older | advmod |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 older | punct |
| 5 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 older | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 terms | case |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 terms | compound |
| 9 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 older | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 older | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | body terms | old, probably property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
They're exactly the same age inside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 age | nsubj |
| 2 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 age | cop |
| 3 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 6 age | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 age | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 age | amod |
| 6 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 6 age | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | They | the same age | exactly, inside property | tree rules |
Option 2
Neither, dogs don't age after five
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 6 age | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 age | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 age | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 age | advmod |
| 6 | age | age | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 five | case |
| 8 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 age | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not age | present · do-support | dogs | after five | neither property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The Great Dane, big dogs age faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Dane | det |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Dane | amod |
| 3 | Dane | Dane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 age | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Dane | punct |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dogs | amod |
| 6 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 age | nsubj |
| 7 | age | age | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 age | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | age | present | the Great Dane | fast property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
The Chihuahua, small dogs age faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Chihuahua | det |
| 2 | Chihuahua | Chihuahua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 age | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Chihuahua | punct |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dogs | amod |
| 5 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 age | nsubj |
| 6 | age | age | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 age | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | age | present | the Chihuahua | fast property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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