Test 9 · ★★ · How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing

«crap, the cat got a robin again» What could the family do to help birds?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crap, family · What happens: get, do, help · To what, where: robin, birds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	_	2 crap	punct
2	crap	crap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 crap	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 robin	det
8	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obj
9	again	again	ADV	_	6 got	advmod
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 do	obj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 do	aux
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 family	det
14	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 do	nsubj
15	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 got	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 help	mark
17	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 do	advcl
18	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 help	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	get in a quote	past	crap	a robin		again	tree rules
2	do	could	the family				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	help	to-infinitive	the family not said here		birds		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Beneficiary

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

Let the cat out more at dusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obj
4	out	out	ADV	_	1 Let	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Let	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 dusk	case
7	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let out	imperative	you not said here	the cat			dusk	out property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, cats never harm birds, the robin must have been ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 harm	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 harm	advmod
5	harm	harm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	acl:relcl
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 harm	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ill	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 robin	det
9	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ill	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 ill	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 ill	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 ill	cop
13	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not harm	present	cats	birds					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer
2	is	must · perfect	the robin					ill property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Give it a bright collar or bell and keep it in at dawn and dusk

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 collar	det
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 collar	amod
5	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 bell	cc
7	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 collar	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 keep	cc
9	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 keep	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	9 keep	compound:prt
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 dawn	case
13	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dusk	cc
15	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dawn	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	a bright collar or bell	it				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient collar=Theme
2	keep in	infinitive	you not said here	bell			dawn		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Feed the robins to the cat so it gets full and stops hunting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 robins	det
3	robins	robin	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Feed	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 cat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Feed	obl
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 gets	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gets	nsubj
9	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Feed	advcl
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gets	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stops	cc
12	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 gets	conj
13	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 stops	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	feed	imperative	you not said here	the robins	the cat		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent robin=Theme to cat=Recipient
2	get	present	cat			full property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	stop	present	cat not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	hunt	gerund	cat not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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