Test 12 · ★ · Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?

Why do you think people say cats have nine lives, not dogs?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, people, cats · What happens: think, say, have · To what, where: nine lives · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 think	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 think	ccomp
7	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
9	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 lives	nummod
10	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dogs	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 dogs	advmod
13	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lives	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · do-support	you		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	people		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	present	cats	nine lives and dogs	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient

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

Dogs have no lives at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 lives	det
4	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 have	obl

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

Option 2

Cats are made of a stronger kind of bone than any other animal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 kind	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kind	det
6	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 kind	amod
7	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 bone	case
9	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kind	nmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	13 animal	case
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 animal	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 animal	amod
13	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive	any other animal	Cats				of a stronger kind of bone	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product

Option 3

A scientist counted them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 scientist	det
2	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 counted	nsubj
3	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 counted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	past	a scientist	them = they					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cats are agile and often walk away from falls that look bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 agile	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 agile	cop
3	agile	agile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 walk	cc
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 walk	advmod
6	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 agile	conj
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 walk	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 falls	case
9	falls	fall	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 walk	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 look	nsubj
11	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 falls	acl:relcl
12	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cats		agile property	tree rules
2	walk away	present	Cats not said here	falls	away, often property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from fall=Source
3	look	present	falls		bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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