Test 11 · ★★ · Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never…

«a mouse squeaks behind the wall and I can't hear nothing» How does the cat know it's there?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mouse, I, cat · What happens: squeak, not hear, know, be · To what, where: wall, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ 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 squeaks	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mouse	det
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 squeaks	nsubj
4	squeaks	squeak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 wall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wall	det
7	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 squeaks	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hear	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 hear	nsubj
10	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hear	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 hear	advmod
12	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 squeaks	conj
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 hear	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 nothing	punct
15	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 know	advmod
16	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 know	aux
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cat	det
18	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 know	nsubj
19	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hear	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 there	nsubj
21	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 there	cop
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 know	ccomp
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 squeaks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	squeak in a quote	present	a mouse		the wall		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind wall=Location
2	not hear in a quote	can	I	nothing			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	know	present · do-support	the cat				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	cat			there 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

The mouse waved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mouse	det
2	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waved	nsubj
3	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past	the mouse						vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The cat can see through walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	6 walls	case
6	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	the cat			walls			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cats hear high squeaks too high for us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hear	nsubj
2	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 squeaks	amod
4	squeaks	squeak	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hear	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 high	advmod
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 squeaks	amod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 us	case
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 high	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	Cats	high squeaks					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer squeak=Stimulus

Option 4

The cat guessed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guessed	nsubj
3	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	past	the cat						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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