Test 11 · ★ · Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming

«why'd her eyes go all thin like a snake's in the sun» What is the answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eyes · What happens: go, be · To what, where: answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 197 «Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming» 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	_	6 go	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 go	advmod
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 her	aux
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eyes	nmod:poss
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 thin	advmod
8	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	xcomp
9	like	like	ADP	_	15 sun	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 snake	det
11	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sun	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 snake	case
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 sun	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sun	det
15	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thin	obl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 answer	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 answer	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 answer	det
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	parataxis
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present	her eyes					thin property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be speech: assert	present		the answer					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

She is cross with you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cross	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cross	cop
3	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 cross	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					with you; cross property	tree rules

Option 2

She is going blind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 going	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 going	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	She					blind property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

She is about to sneeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 about	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 about	cop
3	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sneeze	mark
5	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 about	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					about property	tree rules
2	sneeze	to-infinitive	She not said here						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Slit pupils let in very little light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slit	slit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pupils	amod
2	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 light	case
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 little	advmod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 light	amod
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 let	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	Slit pupils			little light			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

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