Test 1 · ★★ · Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never…

«Tom never gets Jerry so real cats are rubbish at catching mice» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tom, real cats, rubbish, mice · What happens: not get, be, catch · To what, where: Jerry, rubbish, mice

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 198 «Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry» 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	_	4 gets	punct
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gets	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 gets	advmod
4	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Jerry	Jerry	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gets	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 rubbish	advmod
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cats	amod
8	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rubbish	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 rubbish	cop
10	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gets	obl
11	at	at	SCONJ	_	12 catching	mark
12	catching	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 rubbish	acl
13	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 catching	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 mice	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mice	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not get in a quote	present	Tom	Jerry		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jerry=Stimulus
2	is a in a quote	present	real cats	rubbish		tree rules
3	catch in a quote	gerund	rubbish not said here	mice		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
4	is	present	mice		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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, mice always win

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 win	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 win	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 win	advmod
5	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	present	mice					always property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

No, real cats catch only rats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 catch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 catch	punct
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cats	amod
4	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 catch	nsubj
5	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 rats	advmod
7	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present	real cats	rats					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme

Option 3

Yes, cats only eat cat food from a tin and have forgotten how to hunt

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 eat	advmod
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 food	compound
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 tin	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tin	det
10	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 forgotten	cc
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 forgotten	aux
13	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 eat	conj
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 hunt	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 hunt	mark
16	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 forgotten	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	eat	present	cats	cat food	a tin	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
2	forget	present · perfect	cats not said here			tree rules
3	not hunt	to-infinitive	cats not said here			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, real cats often catch mice; the cartoon is just for fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 catch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 catch	punct
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cats	amod
4	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 catch	nsubj
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 catch	advmod
6	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 catch	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 fun	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cartoon	det
10	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fun	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fun	cop
12	just	just	ADV	_	14 fun	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 fun	case
14	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present	real cats	mice				often property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
2	is	present	the cartoon					for fun	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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