Test 7 · Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?

What would happen if a cat that is chased stands still and stays calm?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: happen, chase, stand, stay · To what, where: cat

This is test 7 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	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	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 stands	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stands	nsubj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 chased	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 chased	aux:pass
9	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cat	acl:relcl
10	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	still	still	ADV	_	10 stands	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stays	cc
13	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 stands	conj
14	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stays	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	chase	present · passive		a cat			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	stand a condition, not said to happen	present	a cat		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stay	present	a cat not said here			calm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 dog chases even faster and catches it at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chases	nsubj
3	chases	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 faster	advmod
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 chases	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 catches	cc
7	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 chases	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 catches	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 catches	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	present	the dog					fast property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	catch	present	the dog not said here	dog					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at once=Asset

Option 2

The cat's fur falls out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fur	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 cat	case
4	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 falls	nsubj
5	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 falls	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall out	present	the cat's fur						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The dog falls asleep at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falls	nsubj
3	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 falls	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 falls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	the dog					asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Many dogs stop and seem unsure what to do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dogs	amod
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 seem	cc
5	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	conj
6	unsure	unsure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seem	xcomp
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 do	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 unsure	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Many dogs		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	seem	present	Many dogs not said here	unsure property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	do	to-infinitive	Many dogs not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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