Test 4 · ★ · Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming

«ugh the cat's sicked up a hairy sausage on my bed» What is it most likely?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: sic up, be · To what, where: hairy sausage, bed, sausage

This is test 4 · ★ 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 sicked	punct
2	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	6 sicked	discourse
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sicked	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 cat	case
6	sicked	sic	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 sicked	compound:prt
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sausage	det
9	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sausage	amod
10	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sicked	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 bed	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bed	nmod:poss
13	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sausage	nmod
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 sicked	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 sicked	obl:agent
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 it	cop
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 What	nsubj
18	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	19 likely	advmod
19	likely	likely	ADV	_	15 What	advmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sic up in a quote	participle		a hairy sausage		my bed			tree rules
2	is a	present		sausage					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

A worm it found

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 worm	det
2	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 worm	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	worm	a worm not said here					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A hairball of swallowed fur from grooming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hairball	det
2	hairball	hairball	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 fur	case
4	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fur	amod
5	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hairball	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 grooming	case
7	grooming	grooming	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fur	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	participle							vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A piece of carpet it ate when nobody was watching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 carpet	case
4	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ate	nsubj
6	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 watching	mark
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 watching	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 watching	aux
10	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 ate	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	a piece of carpet						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	watch	past · progressive	nobody						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A mouse tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tail	det
2	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tail	compound
3	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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