Test 9 · Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?

«cat's been up the tree an hour, it'll get down by itself, it's a cat duh» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat · What happens: be, get down · To what, where: tree, cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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	_	7 tree	punct
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tree	cop
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 tree	cop
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 been	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obl
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hour	det
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tree	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 get	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 get	aux
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 get	compound:prt
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 itself	case
16	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 get	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cat	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cat	nsubj
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 cat	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cat	det
21	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	parataxis
22	duh	duh	INTJ	_	21 cat	discourse
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
24	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 right	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 right	cop
26	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 get	parataxis
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	cat	the tree	hour		tree rules
2	get down in a quote	future	cat			by cat	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	cat	a cat			tree rules
4	is	present				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

Cats always jump down safely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 jump	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 jump	advmod
3	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 jump	advmod
5	safely	safely	ADV	_	3 jump	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump down	present	Cats					always, down, safely property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Cats can walk straight down head-first like squirrels, no problem

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walk	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 walk	aux
3	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 down	advmod
5	down	down	ADV	_	3 walk	advmod
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walk	obj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 head	punct
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 walk	advmod
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 squirrels	case
10	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walk	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 problem	punct
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 problem	det
13	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 squirrels	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	can	Cats	head				like squirrels and no problem; down, first property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Trajectory

Option 3

Cats can stay up forever without food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stay	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 stay	compound:prt
5	forever	forever	ADV	_	3 stay	advmod
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 food	case
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay up	can	Cats					without food; forever property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cats climb up easily but often struggle to come down head-first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 climb	nsubj
2	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 climb	compound:prt
4	easily	easily	ADV	_	2 climb	advmod
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 struggle	cc
6	often	often	ADV	_	7 struggle	advmod
7	struggle	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 climb	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 come	mark
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 struggle	xcomp
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 come	compound:prt
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obj
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 head	punct
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	climb up	present	Cats		easily property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	struggle	present	Cats not said here		often property	tree rules
3	come down	to-infinitive	Cats not said here	head	first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme

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