--- title: Identify the verb contained in the sentence "The dog barked". — Verbs: doing words and being words · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the verb contained in the sentence "The dog barked". Exam question 1 of lesson 3 «Verbs: doing words and being words» of the language 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/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/e1/) [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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/) / [Verbs: doing words and being words](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Verbs: doing words and being words Identify the verb contained in the sentence "The dog barked". **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, dog · **What happens:** identify, contain, bark · **To what, where:** verb, sentence This is exam question 1 of lesson 3 «Verbs: doing words and being words» of the language course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words:e1:1 # text = Identify the verb contained in the sentence "The dog barked". 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 contained contain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 barked bark VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the verb | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent verb=Theme | | 2 | **contain** | participle | | the verb *not said here* | | the sentence | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in sentence=Location | | 3 | **bark** *in a quote* | past | the dog | the sentence *not said here* | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sentence=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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} the ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words:e1:o1:1 # text = the 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The dog ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words:e1:o2:1 # text = The dog 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} barked ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words:e1:o3:1 # text = barked 1 barked bark VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bark** | participle | | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} dog ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words:e1:o4:1 # text = dog 1 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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