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Test 7 · ★★ · "If... then..." and its traps

Mum: "Your logic's perfect, Leo. Your dog's isn't. He barks at leaves." What made Leo's answer wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog, Leo · What happens: not be, bark, make, answer · To what, where: answer

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 184 «"If... then..." and its traps» of the world 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: Mum: "Your logic's perfect, Leo.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 perfect	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 perfect	punct
4	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 logic	nmod:poss
5	logic	logic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 perfect	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 logic	case
7	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Mum	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Leo	punct
9	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 perfect	vocative
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Mum	punct

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

Sentence 2: Your dog's isn't.

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 dog	nmod:poss
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 is	nsubj
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dog	case
4	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 is	advmod
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not be	present	Your dog						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Sentence 3: He barks at leaves."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 barks	nsubj
2	barks	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 leaves	case
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 barks	obl
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 barks	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 barks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	present	dog					at leaves	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at leaf=Stimulus

Sentence 4: What made Leo's answer wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answer	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Leo	case
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		Leo's answer				wrong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material answer=Product
2	answer		Leo						nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A bad step in the reasoning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 step	det
2	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 step	amod
3	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 reasoning	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reasoning	det
6	reasoning	reasoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 step	nmod

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

Option 2

Opening the door too slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Opening	obj
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 slowly	advmod
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 Opening	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	gerund		the door				slowly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme

Option 3

Leaves being hard to see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hard	nsubj
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hard	cop
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hard	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	Leaves					hard property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	Leaves not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A false starting rule

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rule	det
2	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rule	amod
3	starting	starting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rule	compound
4	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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