Test 1 · ★ · Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?

«Tom never catches Jerry so cats are rubbish at hunting innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tom, cats · What happens: not catch, be, hunt · To what, where: Jerry, rubbish, innit

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 118 «Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 catches	punct
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 catches	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 catches	advmod
4	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Jerry	Jerry	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 catches	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 rubbish	advmod
7	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rubbish	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 rubbish	cop
9	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catches	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 hunting	case
11	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 catches	advcl
12	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hunting	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 catches	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 catches	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 catches	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not catch in a quote	present	Tom	Jerry		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jerry=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	cats	rubbish		tree rules
3	hunt in a quote	gerund	Tom not said here	innit		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent innit=Theme
4	is	present			right 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

Option 1

Yes, real cats never catch anything, they just sleep all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 catch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 catch	punct
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cats	amod
4	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 catch	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 catch	advmod
6	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sleep	advcl
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 catch	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 catch	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sleep	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 sleep	advmod
11	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sleep	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not catch	present	real cats	anything					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
2	sleep	present	cats = cat				day		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Cats only hunt cheese, never mice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hunt	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 hunt	advmod
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hunt	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mice	punct
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 mice	advmod
7	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	Cats	cheese				mice obl	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Real cats are skilled hunters, though mice often escape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cats	amod
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hunters	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hunters	cop
4	skilled	skilled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hunters	amod
5	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 escape	punct
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 escape	mark
8	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 escape	nsubj
9	often	often	ADV	_	10 escape	advmod
10	escape	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hunters	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Real cats	skilled hunters					tree rules
2	escape	present	mice					often property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Mice always beat cats in a fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 beat	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 beat	advmod
3	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 beat	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 fight	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fight	det
7	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present	Mice	cats				in a fight; always property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent cat=Patient in fight=Topic

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