Test 7 · ★ · Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming

What would happen if a cat had no scratching post anywhere at home?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: scratching post

This is test 7 · ★ 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	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	_	7 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 post	det
9	scratching	scratching	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 post	compound
10	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
11	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 had	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 home	case
13	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 anywhere	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a cat	no scratching post				anywhere property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent post=Patient

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

It would learn to file its own nails on the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 learn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	aux
3	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 file	mark
5	file	file	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learn	xcomp
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nails	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nails	amod
8	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 file	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 floor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 floor	det
11	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 file	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	It						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	file	to-infinitive		its own nails		the floor			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nail=Theme on floor=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would probably scratch the furniture

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scratch	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 scratch	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 scratch	advmod
4	scratch	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 furniture	det
6	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scratch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	would	It	the furniture				probably property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent furniture=Theme

Option 3

Its claws would fall off within a few weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 claws	nmod:poss
2	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fall	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 fall	compound:prt
6	within	within	ADP	_	9 weeks	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 weeks	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 weeks	amod
9	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	would	Its claws				week		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

It would stop scratching for ever and forget how

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	scratching	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 ever	case
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 scratching	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 forget	cc
8	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stop	conj
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 forget	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	stop	would	It	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	scratch	gerund		vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for ever=Theme
3	forget	infinitive		tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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