Test 5 · ★★ · How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing

«gonna trim my cat's whiskers so they look neat» Why is that a bad idea?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, whiskers · What happens: trim, look, be · To what, where: whiskers, bad idea

This is test 5 · ★★ 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	_	3 trim	punct
2	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	3 trim	dep
3	trim	trim	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cat	nmod:poss
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whiskers	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 cat	case
7	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trim	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 look	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 look	nsubj
10	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trim	advcl
11	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 look	xcomp
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 trim	punct
13	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	18 idea	advmod
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 idea	cop
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 idea	mark
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 idea	det
17	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 idea	amod
18	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trim	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 trim	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	trim in a quote	imperative	you not said here	my cat's whiskers		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whisker=Patient
2	look in a quote	present	whiskers = whisker		neat property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is a	present		a bad idea		tree rules

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

Whiskers are what cats taste with, so it could not taste its food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 what	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 taste	nsubj
5	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
6	with	with	ADP	_	5 taste	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 taste	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 taste	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 taste	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 taste	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 taste	advmod
12	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 what	acl:relcl
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 food	nmod:poss
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 taste	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	Whiskers		tree rules
2	taste	present	cats		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	not taste	could	it	its food	vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme food=Attribute

Option 2

Whiskers keep the cat's head warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 head	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 cat	case
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Whiskers	the cat's head				warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme

Option 3

Whiskers grow back in one minute, so trimming is a waste of time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 grow	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 minute	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 minute	nummod
6	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 waste	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 waste	advmod
9	trimming	trimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 waste	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 waste	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 waste	det
12	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	parataxis
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 time	case
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 waste	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	present	Whiskers				minute		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	trimming	a waste			time		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Whiskers are full of nerves and help the cat feel its way and its prey

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 full	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 full	cop
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 nerves	case
5	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 full	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 help	cc
7	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 full	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 help	obj
10	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 help	xcomp
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 way	nmod:poss
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feel	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 prey	cc
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 prey	nmod:poss
15	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 full	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Whiskers		of nerves; full property	tree rules
2	help	present	Whiskers not said here	the cat		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent cat=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	feel	infinitive	the cat not said here	cat's way		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme

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