Test 5 · ★★ · Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never…

What would happen if you played laser games with your cat and never let it catch anything?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, cat · What happens: happen, play, not let, catch · To what, where: laser games, cat, anything

This is test 5 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 played	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 played	nsubj
6	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	laser	laser	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 games	compound
8	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 played	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 cat	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 cat	nmod:poss
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 played	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 let	cc
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 let	advmod
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 catch	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	play a condition, not said to happen	past	you	laser games	with your cat	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent game=Theme with cat=Co-Agent
3	not let	infinitive		cat		tree rules
4	catch	infinitive	cat not said here	anything		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

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 cat would learn to fly

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 learn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fly	mark
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 learn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	the cat						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fly	to-infinitive	the cat not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The cat could get frustrated because it never makes a catch

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 get	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	frustrated	frustrated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 makes	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 makes	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 makes	advmod
9	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 get	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 catch	det
11	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	could	the cat					frustrated property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	not make	present	cat	a catch					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material catch=Product

Option 3

The cat would catch the light

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 catch	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 catch	aux
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 light	det
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	would	the cat	the light					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme

Option 4

The cat would get bored of all toys forever and never play with anything again

The tree, 15 words

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	5 bored	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bored	aux
4	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 bored	aux:pass
5	bored	bore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 toys	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 toys	det
8	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bored	obl
9	forever	forever	ADV	_	5 bored	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 play	cc
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 play	advmod
12	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bored	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 anything	case
14	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 play	obl
15	again	again	ADV	_	12 play	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bore	would · passive		the cat				of all toys; forever property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	not play	infinitive					again	with anything	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with anything=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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