Test 2 · ★ · Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?

«my cat's fat and lazy, he won't hunt anything, he's full» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fat · What happens: not hunt, be · To what, where: anything

This is test 2 · ★ 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	_	5 fat	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cat	nmod:poss
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fat	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 cat	case
5	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hunt	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lazy	cc
7	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fat	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fat	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hunt	nsubj
10	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hunt	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 hunt	advmod
12	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 hunt	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 full	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 full	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 full	cop
17	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hunt	parataxis
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 full	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 true	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 true	cop
21	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 full	conj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 hunt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not hunt in a quote	future	my cat's fat	anything		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	fat		full property	tree rules
3	is	present			true 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 · ← Mova's choice

A full cat can never hunt again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cat	det
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cat	amod
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunt	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hunt	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 hunt	advmod
6	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 hunt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hunt	can	a full cat				again		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Fat cats hunt twice as much as thin ones, because they need more food to stay fat

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cats	compound
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hunt	nsubj
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 much	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hunt	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 ones	case
8	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ones	amod
9	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 much	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 need	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 need	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 need	nsubj
13	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hunt	conj
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 food	amod
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 need	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 stay	mark
17	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 need	xcomp
18	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	Fat cats	much		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme
2	need	present	cats = cat	more food		tree rules
3	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	more food not said here		fat property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The hunting urge does not switch off when full, so he may still chase things

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 urge	det
2	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 urge	compound
3	urge	urge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 switch	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 switch	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 switch	advmod
6	switch	switch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 switch	compound:prt
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 full	mark
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 switch	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 chase	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 chase	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 chase	nsubj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 chase	aux
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 chase	advmod
15	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 switch	conj
16	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 chase	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not switch off	present · do-support	the hunting urge						vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	chase	may	urge	things			still		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

Option 4

Cats only hunt when the moon is full and the nights are bright enough to see

The tree, 16 words

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	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 full	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moon	det
6	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 full	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 full	cop
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hunt	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bright	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 nights	det
11	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bright	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 bright	cop
13	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 full	conj
14	enough	enough	ADV	_	13 bright	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 bright	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	Cats		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the moon	full property	tree rules
3	is	present	the nights	bright, enough property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	the nights not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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