Test 9 · ★ · Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?

Why might a city cat leave a big rat alone but chase a mouse?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: city cat · What happens: leave, chase · To what, where: big rat, mouse

This is test 9 · ★ 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	6 leave	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 leave	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
4	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cat	compound
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leave	nsubj
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 rat	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rat	amod
9	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leave	obj
10	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 leave	advmod
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 chase	cc
12	chase	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 leave	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mouse	det
14	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chase	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	might	a city cat	a big rat				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme
2	chase	present	a city cat not said here	a mouse					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme

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

Rats are too slow to be fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slow	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 slow	advmod
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 fun	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 fun	cop
7	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Rats					slow property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	Rats not said here					fun property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A big rat can fight back hard and hurt the cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rat	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rat	amod
3	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fight	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fight	aux
5	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	7 hard	advmod
7	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 fight	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hurt	cc
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fight	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cat	det
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight back	can	a big rat					hard property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hurt	infinitive	a big rat not said here	the cat					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Patient

Option 3

Cats cannot see rats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	Cats	rats					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rat=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Rats are always friends with cats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 friends	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 friends	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 friends	advmod
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 cats	case
6	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 friends	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Rats	friends				with cats; always property	tree rules

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