Test 11 · ★★ · How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing

«my 3 cats are all staring at the bird outside, how many ears pointing at it, no 4 cats, Mum's one too»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: 3 cats, many ears · What happens: stare, point · To what, where: many ears

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 119 «How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing» 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	_	7 staring	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cats	nmod:poss
3	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 cats	nummod
4	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 staring	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 staring	aux
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 staring	advmod
7	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 bird	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bird	det
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 staring	obl
11	outside	outside	ADV	_	7 staring	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ears	punct
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 many	advmod
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ears	amod
15	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 staring	obl
16	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 ears	acl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pointing	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cats	punct
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 cats	det
21	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 cats	nummod
22	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 staring	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 one	punct
24	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 one	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 Mum	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 staring	obl
27	too	too	ADV	_	26 one	advmod
28	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 staring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare in a quote	present · progressive	my 3 cats	many ears				at the bird; no 4 cats obl; Mum's one obl; all, outside property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bird=Theme
2	point in a quote	gerund	many ears not said here					at bird	vn wink-40.3.1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

8, two each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 two	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 8	conj
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	1 8	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

6, two ears each on 3 cats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 ears	nummod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ears	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 ears	nummod
4	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 ears	appos
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 cats	case
7	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 cats	nummod
8	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 each	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

4, one ear each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ear	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 ear	nummod
4	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 4	appos
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	1 4	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

16, four ears each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ears	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 ears	nummod
4	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 16	conj
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	1 16	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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