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Test 3 · Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?

In a cartoon, Spike flattens Tom and Tom pops back into shape. What would happen to a real cat?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Spike, Tom · What happens: flatten, pop back, happen · To what, where: Tom, cartoon, shape

This is test 3 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon, Spike flattens Tom and Tom pops back into shape.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flattens	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	Spike	Spike	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 flattens	nsubj
6	flattens	flatten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 flattens	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pops	cc
9	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 pops	nsubj
10	pops	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 flattens	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 pops	advmod
12	into	into	ADP	_	13 shape	case
13	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pops	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flattens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flatten	present	Spike	Tom		a cartoon			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tom=Patient
2	pop back	present	Tom					into shape result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into shape=Result

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 would happen to a real cat?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 cat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cat	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cat	amod
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a real cat	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

It would spring back just like Tom

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	3 spring	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spring	aux
3	spring	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 spring	advmod
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 Tom	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 Tom	case
7	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 spring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring back	would	It					like Tom	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would be badly hurt and need a vet

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 hurt	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hurt	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 hurt	aux:pass
4	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 hurt	advmod
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 need	cc
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hurt	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 vet	det
9	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	would · passive		It				badly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	need	present		a vet					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vet=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, cats have nine lives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 cats	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 lives	nummod
6	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Nothing cats	nine lives					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient

Option 4

It would get bigger next time

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	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	It				time	big property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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