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Test 6 · ★★ · The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye

Jake asks, «Why did our cat go away to die, did she hate us?» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jake, cat, best answer · What happens: ask, go away, die, hate, be · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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: Jake asks, «Why did our cat go away to die, did she hate us?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
5	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 go	advmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cat	nmod:poss
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	nsubj
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asks	parataxis
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 die	mark
12	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 go	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hate	punct
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hate	aux
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hate	nsubj
16	hate	hate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 go	conj
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 hate	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Jake						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go away in a quote	past · do-support	our cat					away property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	die in a quote	to-infinitive	our cat not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	hate in a quote	past · do-support	cat	us					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=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.

Sentence 2: What is the best answer?

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 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	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 best answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She went to look for a better family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 look	mark
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 family	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 family	det
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 family	amod
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	She						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	to-infinitive	She not said here					for a better family	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for family=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Ill animals hide by instinct; it was not about you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hide	nsubj
3	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 instinct	case
5	instinct	instinct	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hide	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 hide	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 you	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 you	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 you	advmod
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hide	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	Ill animals					by instinct	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by instinct=Location
2	not is	past	instinct					about you	tree rules

Option 3

She was punished for being bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 punished	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 punished	aux:pass
3	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 bad	case
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 bad	cop
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 punished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	past · passive		She					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	gerund						bad property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, cats always run off when they stop liking their people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 run	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 run	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 run	advmod
5	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 run	compound:prt
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 stop	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stop	nsubj
9	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 run	advcl
10	liking	like	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stop	xcomp
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 people	nmod:poss
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 liking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	present	cats					always property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	present	cats = cat						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	like	gerund	cats = cat not said here	cats's people					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot people=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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