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title: ★★★ «I met a girl at the park whose dog was huge.» Why is this sente… — Relative clauses · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ «I met a girl at the park whose dog was huge.» Why is this sentence a bit muddled? Test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Relative clauses» of the English 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 · ★★★ · Relative clauses

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★★★ «I met a girl at the park whose dog was huge.» Why is this sentence a bit muddled?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★ ★ ★, dog · **What happens:** meet, be, muddle · **To what, where:** girl, park, sentence

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This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Relative clauses» of the English 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/english/30-relative-clauses/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ «I met a girl at the park whose dog was huge.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:30-relative-clauses:t6:1
# text = ★★★ «I met a girl at the park whose dog was huge.»
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** *in a quote* | past | ★ ★ ★ | a girl |  | the park |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | dog |  |  |  |  | huge *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.

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*Sentence 2:* Why is this sentence a bit muddled?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:30-relative-clauses:t6:2
# text = Why is this sentence a bit muddled?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	muddled	muddle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | this sentence |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **muddle** | participle · passive |  | this sentence |  |  |  | a bit *obl:unmarked* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Parks can't have relative clauses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:30-relative-clauses:t6:o1:1
# text = Parks can't have relative clauses
1	Parks	park	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	relative	relative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	clauses	clause	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | can | Parks | relative clauses |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Whose should be who's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:30-relative-clauses:t6:o2:1
# text = Whose should be who's
1	Whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | should |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It has no verb at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:30-relative-clauses:t6:o3:1
# text = It has no verb at all
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	verb	verb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | It | no verb |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verb=Patient |

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

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Whose seems to belong to the park, not the girl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:30-relative-clauses:t6:o4:1
# text = Whose seems to belong to the park, not the girl
1	Whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	belong	belong	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **belong** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the park | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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