Test 4 · ★★ · How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing

How could a mouse's own squeaks help a cat find it?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: own squeaks, you, mouse · What happens: help, find, squeak · To what, where: cat

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 help	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 help	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mouse	det
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 squeaks	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 mouse	case
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 squeaks	amod
7	squeaks	squeak	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 help	nsubj
8	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 find	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 help	obj
11	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 find	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	help	could	a mouse's own squeaks		a cat	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Beneficiary
2	find	imperative	you not said here	cat		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	squeak		a mouse			nom squeak «event intransitive»: poss=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

Mouse squeaks smell of food, and cats follow the smell to the mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 squeaks	compound
2	squeaks	squeak	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 smell	nsubj
3	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 food	case
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smell	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 follow	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 follow	cc
8	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 follow	nsubj
9	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 smell	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 smell	det
11	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 follow	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 mouse	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mouse	det
14	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 follow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	Mouse squeaks					of food	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of food=Theme
2	follow	present	cats	the smell				to the mouse	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent smell=Theme to mouse=Trajectory

Option 2

Squeaks make the mouse glow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squeaks	squeak	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 glow	det
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 glow	compound
5	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Squeaks	the mouse glow					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset glow=Product

Option 3

Cats cannot hear squeaks at all, so they do not help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hear	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hear	advmod
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	squeaks	squeak	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hear	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 hear	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 help	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 help	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 help	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 help	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 help	advmod
13	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hear	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	can	Cats	squeaks		all			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer squeak=Stimulus
2	not help	present · do-support	Cats = cat						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cats hear very high sounds and can turn their ears to the spot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hear	nsubj
2	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 high	advmod
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sounds	amod
5	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hear	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 turn	cc
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 turn	aux
8	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hear	conj
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ears	nmod:poss
10	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 turn	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 spot	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 spot	det
13	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	Cats	high sounds					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
2	turn	can	Cats not said here	Cats's ears		the spot			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent ear=Theme to spot=Trajectory

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