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title: «my mate reckons dogs can fly helicopters like Skye» What is right? — Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue… · tree and pragmatics
description: «my mate reckons dogs can fly helicopters like Skye» What is right? Test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 140 «Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 6 · ★★★ · Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs

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«my mate reckons dogs can fly helicopters like Skye» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate, dogs · **What happens:** reckon, fly, be · **To what, where:** helicopters · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 140 «Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs:t6:1
# text = «my mate reckons dogs can fly helicopters like Skye» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
8	helicopters	helicopter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Skye	Skye	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
12	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** *in a quote* | present | my mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** *in a quote* | can | dogs | helicopters |  |  |  | like Skye | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location helicopter=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Yes, but only in Italy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs:t6:o1:1
# text = Yes, but only in Italy
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Yes, small dogs fly them in rescues, after a few years of training with a pilot

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs:t6:o2:1
# text = Yes, small dogs fly them in rescues, after a few years of training with a pilot
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	rescues	rescue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	pilot	pilot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present | small dogs | them *= they* |  | rescues | year | with a pilot | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent they=Theme in rescue=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, dogs are scared of helicopters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs:t6:o3:1
# text = No, dogs are scared of helicopters
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	helicopters	helicopter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | dogs |  |  |  |  | of helicopters; scared *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No dog can fly one; some dogs ride in rescue helicopters with handlers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs:t6:o4:1
# text = No dog can fly one; some dogs ride in rescue helicopters with handlers
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	ride	ride	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	rescue	rescue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	helicopters	helicopter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	handlers	handler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | can | no dog | one |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme |
| 2 | **ride** | present | some dogs |  |  | rescue helicopters |  | with handlers | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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**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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