Test 8 · ★★ · How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing
In the Lion King, Nala pounces on Simba in play. What is that kind of play in real young cats?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Nala · What happens: pounce, be · To what, where: Simba, kind
This is test 8 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: In the Lion King, Nala pounces on Simba in play.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 King | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 3 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | compound |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 pounces | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 King | punct |
| 6 | Nala | Nala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 pounces | nsubj |
| 7 | pounces | pounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Simba | case |
| 9 | Simba | Simba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 pounces | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 play | case |
| 11 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pounces | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pounces | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pounce | present | Nala | Simba | in the Lion King; in play | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in king=Trajectory |
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.
Sentence 2: What is that kind of play in real young cats?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | cop |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 kind | det |
| 4 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 play | case |
| 6 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kind | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 cats | case |
| 8 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cats | amod |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cats | amod |
| 10 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kind | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 kind | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that kind | of play; in real young cats | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Practice for hunting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 hunting | case |
| 3 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Practice | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A sign they are feeling ill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sign | det |
| 2 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feeling | nsubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 feeling | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feeling | aux |
| 5 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feeling | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present · progressive | a sign | ill property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3
A dance to attract birds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dance | det |
| 2 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 attract | mark |
| 4 | attract | attract | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 dance | acl |
| 5 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 attract | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attract | to-infinitive | birds | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient |
Option 4
A real fight to the end
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fight | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fight | amod |
| 3 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 end | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 end | det |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fight | nmod |
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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