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Test 10 · ★★ · The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye

Megan's mum wants to throw Biscuit's lead away at once, but Megan's brother wants to keep it. What is the wise move?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, brother, wise move · What happens: want, throw, keep, be · To what, where: lead

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 56 «The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye» of the religion ethics 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: Megan's mum wants to throw Biscuit's lead away at once, but Megan's brother wants to keep it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Megan	Megan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mum	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Megan	case
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wants	nsubj
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 throw	mark
6	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wants	xcomp
7	Biscuit	Biscuit	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 lead	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Biscuit	case
9	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 throw	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	6 throw	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 away	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wants	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 wants	cc
15	Megan	Megan	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 brother	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Megan	case
17	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wants	nsubj
18	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wants	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 keep	mark
20	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wants	xcomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 keep	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Megan's mum						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	throw not said to happen	to-infinitive	Megan's mum not said here	Biscuit's lead				away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lead=Theme
3	want	present	Megan's brother						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	Megan's brother not said here	lead					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 is the wise move?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 move	det
4	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 move	amod
5	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the wise move						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Bury it in the garden without telling anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Bury	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 garden	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 garden	det
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bury	obl
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 telling	mark
7	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Bury	advcl
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 telling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	imperative	you not said here	it		the garden			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in garden=Destination
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	you not said here		anyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient

Option 2

Keep it by the door so everyone sees it daily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obl
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 sees	advmod
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 sees	nsubj
8	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sees	obj
10	daily	daily	ADV	_	8 sees	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it				by the door	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme by door=Location
2	see	present	everyone	door				daily property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Put it in a box for now; there is no right or wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 box	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 box	det
5	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 now	case
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Put	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 is	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 is	expl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 right	cop
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 right	det
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Put	parataxis
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 wrong	cc
14	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 right	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	it		a box			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in box=Destination
2	is	present						right property	tree rules
3	be								tree rules

Option 4

Throw it away; keeping old things like that is babyish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Throw	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 keeping	punct
5	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 babyish	csubj
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keeping	obj
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 that	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 things	nmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 babyish	cop
11	babyish	babyish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Throw	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw away	imperative	you not said here	it				away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	keep	gerund		old things				like that	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
3	is	present	keeping					babyish property	tree rules

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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