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Test 4 · ★★ · Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never…

In the cartoon Tom gets flattened by a frying pan and is fine a second later. What would a vet say about a real cat?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: frying pan, vet · What happens: flatten, be, say · To what, where: Tom, cartoon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ 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 gets flattened by a frying pan and is fine a second later.

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	6 flattened	obl
4	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 flattened	nsubj
5	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 flattened	aux:pass
6	flattened	flatten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 pan	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pan	det
9	frying	frying	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pan	compound
10	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flattened	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fine	cc
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fine	cop
13	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flattened	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 second	det
15	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 later	obl:unmarked
16	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 fine	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flattened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flatten	present · passive	a frying pan	Tom		the cartoon			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	is	present	a frying pan not said here					fine, late 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.

Sentence 2: What would a vet say about a real cat?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 vet	det
4	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 cat	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cat	det
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cat	amod
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	a vet					about a real cat	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

It would bounce back like rubber

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bounce	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bounce	aux
3	bounce	bounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 bounce	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 rubber	case
6	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bounce	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bounce back	would	It					like rubber	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Cats have no bones so it is safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 bones	det
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 safe	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 safe	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 safe	cop
8	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 have	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Cats	no bones					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
2	is	present	it					safe property	tree rules

Option 3

It would be fine after a nap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fine	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 nap	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 nap	det
7	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would					after a nap	fine property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would be badly hurt and need help at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hurt	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hurt	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 hurt	aux:pass
4	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 hurt	advmod
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 need	cc
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hurt	conj
8	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 need	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	would · passive		It				badly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	need	present		help					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=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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