Test 2 · ★ · Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming

«his whiskers are dead long, I'll trim them like a haircut» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: whiskers, I · What happens: be, trim · To what, where: whiskers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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 long	punct
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 whiskers	nmod:poss
3	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 long	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 long	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 long	amod
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 trim	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 trim	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 trim	aux
10	trim	trim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 long	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 trim	obj
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 haircut	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 haircut	det
14	haircut	haircut	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trim	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 long	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 long	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 long	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	his whiskers		long property	tree rules
2	trim in a quote	future	I	whiskers = whisker	like a haircut	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	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

Yes, whiskers grow back in a day, just like your hair grows in a week

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 grow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 grow	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grows	punct
10	just	just	ADV	_	14 grows	advmod
11	like	like	SCONJ	_	14 grows	mark
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hair	nmod:poss
13	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grows	nsubj
14	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	parataxis
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 week	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 week	det
17	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	present	whiskers				day		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	present	your hair				week		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

No, but cut half of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 cut	cc
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 cut	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 half	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past		half of them					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset half=Product

Option 3

Yes, it makes him faster and helps him climb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 makes	obj
6	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 makes	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 helps	cc
8	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 makes	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 helps	obj
10	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 helps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	it	him = he	fast property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product
2	help	present		him = he		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	climb	infinitive	him = he not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

No, whiskers are feelers and must never be cut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 feelers	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 feelers	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 feelers	cop
5	feelers	feeler	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cut	cc
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 cut	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 cut	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 cut	aux:pass
10	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 feelers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	whiskers	feelers					tree rules
2	not cut	must · passive	whiskers not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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