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Test 8 · ★ · Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming

In a cartoon a cat meows to talk with other cats all night. What is true of real adult cats?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat · What happens: meow, talk, be · To what, where: cartoon

This is test 8 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon a cat meows to talk with other cats all night.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meows	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meows	nsubj
6	meows	meow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 talk	mark
8	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 meows	xcomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 cats	case
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cats	amod
11	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 talk	obl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 night	det
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talk	obl:unmarked
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 meows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meow	present	a cat			a cartoon			tree rules
2	talk	to-infinitive	a cat not said here				night	with other cats	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with cat=Co-Agent

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.

Sentence 2: What is true of real adult cats?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 cats	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cats	amod
6	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cats	amod
7	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						of real adult cats; true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

They never make any sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 make	advmod
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 sound	det
5	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	present	They	any sound					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product

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

They meow mostly to people and talk to cats with smells, looks and body

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 meow	nsubj
2	meow	meow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	2 meow	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 meow	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 talk	cc
7	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 meow	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 cats	case
9	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 talk	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 smells	case
11	smells	smell	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 talk	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looks	punct
13	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 smells	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 body	cc
15	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smells	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meow	present	They		people			mostly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient
2	talk	infinitive	They not said here					to cats; with smells and looks and body	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to cat=Co-Agent

Option 3

They bark at each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bark	nsubj
2	bark	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 each	case
4	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	2 bark	obl
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	present	They					at each	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at each=Stimulus

Option 4

They meow only to other cats, and stay completely silent with people all their lives

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 meow	nsubj
2	meow	meow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 cats	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 cats	case
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cats	amod
6	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 meow	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stay	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stay	cc
9	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 meow	conj
10	completely	completely	ADV	_	11 silent	advmod
11	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stay	xcomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 people	case
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stay	obl
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 lives	det:predet
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 lives	nmod:poss
16	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stay	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meow	present	They		other cats				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cat=Recipient
2	stay	infinitive	They not said here	people's lives				with people; silent property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with people=Location

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