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title: Which sound tells you a dog wants you to stay away? — Sounds that warn · tree and pragmatics
description: Which sound tells you a dog wants you to stay away? Test 2 of lesson 12 «Sounds that warn» of the everyday 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 2 · Sounds that warn

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Which sound tells you a dog wants you to stay away?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sound, dog, you · **What happens:** tell, want, stay away · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 of lesson 12 «Sounds that warn» of the everyday 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/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:12-sounds-that-warn:t2:1
# text = Which sound tells you a dog wants you to stay away?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | which sound |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **want** | present | a dog | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stay away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A playful yip while bowing down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:12-sounds-that-warn:t2:o1:1
# text = A playful yip while bowing down
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	playful	playful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	yip	yip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	bowing	bow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bow down** | gerund | a playful yip *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A low growl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:12-sounds-that-warn:t2:o2:1
# text = A low growl
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	growl	growl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A soft sleepy yawn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:12-sounds-that-warn:t2:o3:1
# text = A soft sleepy yawn
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	yawn	yawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Quiet snoring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:12-sounds-that-warn:t2:o4:1
# text = Quiet snoring
1	Quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	snoring	snoring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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