--- title: What would happen if a puppy never met new people or traffic until i… — A puppy at home: the first weeks · tree and pragmatics description: What would happen if a puppy never met new people or traffic until it was a year old? Test 7 of lesson 326 «A puppy at home: the first weeks» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [A puppy at home: the first weeks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks/) / t7 # Test 7 · A puppy at home: the first weeks What would happen if a puppy never met new people or traffic until it was a year old? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** puppy · **What happens:** happen, not meet, be · **To what, where:** new people This is test 7 of lesson 326 «A puppy at home: the first weeks» 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/326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks:t7:1 # text = What would happen if a puppy never met new people or traffic until it was a year old? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 if if SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 puppy puppy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 9 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 traffic traffic NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 until until SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | would | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **meet** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a puppy | new people or traffic | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | puppy | | | | year | old *property* | tree rules | 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} Nothing, it would learn later just the same ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks:t7:o1:1 # text = Nothing, it would learn later just the same 1 Nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 acl:relcl _ _ 6 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 7 just just ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | would | it | | | | | late, same *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} It might grow up scared of them ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks:t7:o2:1 # text = It might grow up scared of them 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow up** | might | It | | | | | scared *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} It would be calmer than other dogs ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks:t7:o3:1 # text = It would be calmer than other dogs 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 cop _ _ 4 calmer calm ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 5 than than ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | would | It | | | | | than other dogs; calm *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} It would learn to drive a car instead ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks:t7:o4:1 # text = It would learn to drive a car instead 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 drive drive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 instead instead ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | would | It | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **drive** | to-infinitive | | a car | | | | instead *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme car=Trajectory | **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. 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