Test 6 · ★★ · How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing

Why would a well-fed cat play with a mouse longer than a hungry one?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fed cat · What happens: feed, play

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 play	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 play	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cat	det
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 fed	advmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
6	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 cat	amod
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 play	nsubj
8	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 mouse	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 mouse	det
11	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 play	obl
12	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 mouse	amod
13	than	than	ADP	_	16 one	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 one	det
15	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 one	amod
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 longer	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 play	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	participle						well property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	play	would	a fed cat					with a mouse	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with mouse=Co-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

A full cat is too weak and sleepy to bite the mouse quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cat	det
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cat	amod
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weak	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 weak	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 weak	advmod
6	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sleepy	cc
8	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 weak	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 bite	mark
10	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 weak	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mouse	det
12	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bite	obj
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	10 bite	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	a full cat		weak property	tree rules
2	be		a full cat not said here			tree rules
3	bite	to-infinitive	a full cat not said here	the mouse	quickly property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Patient

Option 2

Full cats cannot see properly, so they keep missing the mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cats	amod
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	properly	properly	ADV	_	5 see	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 keep	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 keep	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 keep	nsubj
10	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 see	parataxis
11	missing	miss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 keep	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mouse	det
13	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 missing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not see	can	Full cats		properly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	keep	present	cats = cat			tree rules
3	miss	gerund	cats = cat not said here	the mouse		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is in no hurry to eat, so it stays careful and plays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hurry	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hurry	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 hurry	case
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 hurry	det
5	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hurry	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stays	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 stays	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stays	nsubj
11	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hurry	parataxis
12	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stays	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 plays	cc
14	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 stays	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	It	no hurry		tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stay	present	hurry		careful property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	play	present	hurry not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Hungry cats are scared of mice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hungry	hungry	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	_	6 mice	case
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Hungry cats					of mice; scared property	tree rules

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