Test 6 · ★★ · Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never…

«why's the cat making that weird clicky noise at the pigeons» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat, that · What happens: make, noise, be · To what, where: pigeons · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	_	6 making	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 making	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 making	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 making	nsubj
6	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 noise	nsubj
8	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 noise	amod
9	clicky	clicky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 noise	amod
10	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 making	xcomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 pigeons	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pigeons	det
13	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 making	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 making	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 making	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 making	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	present · progressive	the cat	the pigeons		tree rules
2	noise in a quote		that			tree rules
3	is	present			right 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

It is talking pigeon, which cats learn from the birds in the garden

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 talking	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 talking	aux
3	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talking	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 learn	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 learn	obj
7	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 learn	nsubj
8	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pigeon	acl:relcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 birds	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 birds	det
11	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 learn	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 garden	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 garden	det
14	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present · progressive	It	pigeon					vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent pigeon=Patient
2	learn	present	cats	pigeon		the garden		from the birds	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent which=Topic from bird=Source

Option 2

It is choking

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 choking	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 choking	aux
3	choking	choke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choke	present · progressive	It						vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

Cats often chatter at birds, and scientists are not sure why

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chatter	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 chatter	advmod
3	chatter	chatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 birds	case
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chatter	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sure	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sure	cc
8	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sure	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sure	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 sure	advmod
11	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chatter	conj
12	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 sure	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chatter	present	Cats					at birds; often property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at bird=Stimulus
2	not is	present	scientists					sure property	tree rules

Option 4

It is cold

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 cold	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cold	cop
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					cold property	tree rules

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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