Test 8 · ★ · Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?
«Garfield hates mice and loves lasagne, real cats too?» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Garfield · What happens: hate, love, be · To what, where: mice, lasagne
This is test 8 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: «Garfield hates mice and loves lasagne, real cats too?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 hates | punct |
| 2 | Garfield | garfield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hates | nsubj |
| 3 | hates | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hates | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 loves | cc |
| 6 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hates | conj |
| 7 | lasagne | lasagne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 loves | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cats | punct |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cats | amod |
| 10 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lasagne | conj |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 loves | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 hates | punct |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 hates | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate in a quote | present | Garfield | mice | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | love in a quote | present | Garfield not said here | lasagne and real cats | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lasagne=Stimulus |
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.
Sentence 2: What is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Real cats are meat-eaters that may chase mice; lasagne is not good cat food
The tree, 15 words
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 | 6 eaters | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 eaters | cop |
| 4 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eaters | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 meat | punct |
| 6 | eaters | eater | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 chase | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 chase | aux |
| 9 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 eaters | acl:relcl |
| 10 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 chase | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 food | punct |
| 12 | lasagne | lasagne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 food | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 food | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 food | advmod |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 food | amod |
| 16 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 food | compound |
| 17 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eaters | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Real cats | meat eaters and good cat food | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | chase | may | meat eaters and good cat food | mice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is a | present | lasagne | good cat food | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Real cats are scared of all mice and run away when one squeaks
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 | 4 scared | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 scared | cop |
| 4 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mice | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 mice | det |
| 7 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 scared | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 run | cc |
| 9 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 scared | conj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 run | advmod |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 squeaks | mark |
| 12 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 squeaks | nsubj |
| 13 | squeaks | squeak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 run | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Real cats | of all mice; scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run away | present | Real cats not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | squeak | present | one | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Real cats live on pasta
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 | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 pasta | case |
| 5 | pasta | pasta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 live | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Real cats | pasta | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pasta=Location |
Option 4
Real cats only eat vegetables, so they love the tomato in lasagne
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 | 4 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 eat | advmod |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | vegetables | vegetable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eat | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 love | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 love | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 love | nsubj |
| 9 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tomato | det |
| 11 | tomato | tomato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 love | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 lasagne | case |
| 13 | lasagne | lasagne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 love | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | Real cats | vegetables | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vegetable=Patient | ||||
| 2 | love | present | cats = cat | the tomato | lasagne | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tomato=Stimulus |
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