Test 2 · ★★ · Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never…

«eww Smudge left a dead mouse on the mat, she's saying thank you innit» What is closer to the truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Smudge · What happens: leave, say, thank, innit, be · To what, where: dead mouse, mat, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ 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 left	punct
2	eww	eww	INTJ	_	4 left	discourse
3	Smudge	smudge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mouse	det
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mouse	amod
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 mat	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mat	det
10	mat	mat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saying	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saying	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 saying	aux
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 left	advcl
15	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 saying	ccomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 thank	obj
17	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thank	xcomp
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 thank	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 closer	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 closer	cop
21	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 thank	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 truth	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 truth	det
24	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 closer	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave in a quote	past	Smudge	a dead mouse		the mat		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme on mat=Location
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present · progressive	Smudge					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			you			tree rules
4	innit in a quote	infinitive						tree rules
5	is	present					to the truth; close 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

She wants you to bury it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 wants	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 bury	mark
5	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bury	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	She	you					tree rules
2	bury not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	it					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Yes, it is a thank-you present

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 thank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thank	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thank	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thank	det
6	thank	thank	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 you	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 thank	flat
9	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thank	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a thank					tree rules

Option 3

She is punishing you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 punishing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 punishing	aux
3	punishing	punish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 punishing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	present · progressive	She	you					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She is bringing food home on instinct

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bringing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bringing	aux
3	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 home	compound
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bringing	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 instinct	case
7	instinct	instinct	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bringing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present · progressive	She	food home		instinct			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent home=Theme on instinct=Destination

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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