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Test 3 · ★★ · Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never…

In the cartoon Tom races through every room after Jerry. How would a real cat hunt the mouse?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tom, real cat · What happens: race, hunt · To what, where: cartoon, mouse

This is test 3 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: In the cartoon Tom races through every room after Jerry.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 races	obl
4	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 races	nsubj
5	races	race	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 room	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 room	det
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 races	obl
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 Jerry	case
10	Jerry	Jerry	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 room	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 races	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	race	present	Tom			the cartoon		through every room after Jerry	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cartoon=Trajectory

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: How would a real cat hunt the mouse?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 hunt	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hunt	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cat	amod
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunt	nsubj
6	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mouse	det
8	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunt	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hunt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	would	a real cat	the mouse					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme

The options

Option 1

Call other cats to help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cats	amod
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Call	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 help	mark
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Call	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here		other cats				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient
2	help	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Race through every room, knocking over lamps and vases

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	through	through	ADP	_	4 room	case
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 room	det
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Race	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 knocking	punct
6	knocking	knock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Race	conj
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 lamps	case
8	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 knocking	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 vases	cc
10	vases	vas	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lamps	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	gerund				lamps and vases			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over lamp=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Wait silently near the mouse's path and pounce in one jump

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	silently	silently	ADV	_	1 Wait	advmod
3	near	near	ADP	_	7 path	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mouse	det
5	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 path	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 mouse	case
7	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pounce	cc
9	pounce	pounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 jump	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 jump	nummod
12	jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pounce	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			the mouse's path		silently property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near path=Location
2	pounce	present	you not said here			one jump			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jump=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Chase it all day without stopping, until the mouse is too tired to run

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chase	chase	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Chase	obj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chase	obl:unmarked
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	6 stopping	mark
6	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Chase	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tired	punct
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 tired	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mouse	det
10	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tired	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tired	cop
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 tired	advmod
13	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Chase	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 run	mark
15	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tired	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	imperative	you not said here	it			day		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	stop	gerund	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is	present	the mouse					tired property	tree rules
4	run	to-infinitive	the mouse not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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