Test 1 · Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?

«cats n dogs hate each other, it's science innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cats, it, science innit · What happens: hate, be · To what, where: each, science innit

This is test 1 of lesson 121 «Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?» 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	_	5 hate	punct
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hate	nsubj
3	n	n	X	_	4 dogs	compound
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cats	conj
5	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	5 hate	obj
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	fixed
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 innit	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 innit	cop
11	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 innit	compound
12	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hate	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 innit	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hate in a quote	present	cats and n dogs	each		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus
2	is a in a quote	present	it	science innit		tree rules
3	is	present	science innit		right property	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 · ✓ the right answer

Not true; many live together as friends, especially if they meet young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 true	advmod
2	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 live	punct
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 live	nsubj
5	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 true	parataxis
6	together	together	ADV	_	5 live	advmod
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 friends	case
8	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 meet	punct
10	especially	especially	ADV	_	13 meet	advmod
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 meet	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 meet	nsubj
13	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 true	parataxis
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 meet	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live together	present	many					as friends; together property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	present	friends = friend					especially, young property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

True, they are born enemies, and no cat and dog can ever be friends

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 enemies	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 enemies	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 enemies	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 enemies	cop
5	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 enemies	amod
6	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cat	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cat	cc
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 enemies	appos
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dog	cc
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cat	conj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 friends	aux
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 friends	advmod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 friends	cop
16	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 enemies	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	bear	participle				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	they	True born enemies and friends		tree rules
3	is a	can	they not said here	friends	ever	tree rules

Option 3

True, but only bulldogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bulldogs	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bulldogs	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 bulldogs	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 bulldogs	advmod
5	bulldogs	bulldog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

True, unless the cat is a kitten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kitten	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	5 cat	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kitten	obl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 kitten	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kitten	det
8	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a True kitten				unless the cat	tree rules

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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