Test 3 · ★ · Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?

«Tom crashes about screaming after Jerry» What would happen to a real cat that hunted like that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tom, real cat · What happens: crash, scream, happen, hunt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	_	3 crashes	punct
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 crashes	nsubj
3	crashes	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 screaming	mark
5	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 crashes	advcl
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 Jerry	case
7	Jerry	Jerry	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 screaming	obl
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 crashes	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 happen	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 happen	aux
11	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 crashes	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 cat	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cat	det
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cat	amod
15	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 happen	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 hunted	nsubj
17	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cat	acl:relcl
18	like	like	ADP	_	19 that	case
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 hunted	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 crashes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	crash in a quote	present	Tom			tree rules
2	scream speech: express in a quote	gerund	Tom not said here	after Jerry		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	happen	would			to a real cat	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hunt	past	a real cat		like a real cat	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

It would scare the mice so much they ran into its mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scare	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 scare	aux
3	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mice	det
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scare	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	9 ran	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ran	nsubj
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scare	advcl
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 mouth	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mouth	nmod:poss
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	would	It	the mice					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mouse=Experiencer
2	run	past	mice = mouse					into its mouth result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into mouth=Result

Option 2

Mice would freeze and wait for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 freeze	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 freeze	aux
3	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wait	cc
5	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 freeze	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	would	Mice						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	wait	infinitive	Mice not said here					for it	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It would catch more mice than ever, as the noise freezes them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 catch	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	aux
3	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 mice	amod
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 catch	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 ever	case
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 catch	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 freezes	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 freezes	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 noise	det
11	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 freezes	nsubj
12	freezes	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 freezes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	would	It	more mice					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
2	freeze	present	the noise	mice = mouse					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would catch nothing, as mice run at the first noise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 catch	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	aux
3	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 catch	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 run	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 run	mark
7	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 run	nsubj
8	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 noise	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 noise	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 noise	amod
12	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	would	It	nothing					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
2	run	present	mice			the first noise			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at noise=Trajectory

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