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Test 9 · ★★ · Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell

A puppy keeps sniffing the ground on a walk. What is it doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: puppy · What happens: keep, sniff, do · To what, where: ground, walk

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell» 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: A puppy keeps sniffing the ground on a walk.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 puppy	det
2	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sniffing	sniff	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keeps	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sniffing	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 walk	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 walk	det
9	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sniffing	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	a puppy						tree rules
2	sniff	gerund	a puppy not said here	the ground		a walk			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=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 it doing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 doing	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 doing	nsubj
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · progressive	puppy						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Reading the smells left by other animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 smells	det
3	smells	smell	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Reading	obj
4	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 smells	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 animals	case
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animals	amod
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	gerund		the smells					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Topic
2	leave	participle		the smells not said here				by other animals	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by animal=Location

Option 2

Testing the ground for ultraviolet light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Testing	test	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ground	det
3	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Testing	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 light	case
5	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 light	amod
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Testing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	gerund		the ground				for ultraviolet light	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent ground=Theme for light=Attribute

Option 3

Listening to worms under the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 worms	case
3	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Listening	obl
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Listening	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	gerund				the ground		to worms	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to worm=Theme

Option 4

Looking for warm spots to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 spots	case
3	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spots	amod
4	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Looking	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sleep	mark
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Looking	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund						for warm spots	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for spot=Theme
2	sleep	to-infinitive							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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