Test 7 · ★★ · Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never…

«our cat keeps bringing in baby birds, what can we do» Which is a helpful step?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat, we, baby birds · What happens: keep, bring, do, be · To what, where: helpful step · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ 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 keeps	punct
2	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cat	nmod:poss
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	nsubj
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 keeps	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 birds	case
7	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 birds	compound
8	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bringing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 do	obj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 step	parataxis
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
15	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 step	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 step	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 step	det
18	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 step	amod
19	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 birds	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep in a quote	present	our cat			tree rules
2	bring in a quote	gerund	our cat not said here		in baby birds	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
3	do in a quote	can	we	a helpful step		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	is a	present	baby birds	a helpful step		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

Nothing, cats never harm birds, they only watch them from the grass all day

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 cats	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 harm	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 harm	advmod
5	harm	harm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 harm	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 watch	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 watch	nsubj
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 watch	advmod
10	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 harm	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 watch	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 grass	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 grass	det
14	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 watch	obl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 watch	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not harm	present	Nothing cats	birds					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer
2	watch	present	cats = cat	birds = bird		the grass	day		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

Feed the birds to the cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birds	det
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Feed	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 cat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Feed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	imperative	you not said here	the birds	the cat				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bird=Theme to cat=Recipient

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

A bell or bright collar cover, and keeping the cat in at dawn and dusk

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bell	det
2	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 cover	cc
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cover	amod
5	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cover	compound
6	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bell	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 keeping	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 keeping	cc
9	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 bell	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cat	det
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keeping	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	9 keeping	compound:prt
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 dawn	case
14	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keeping	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dusk	cc
16	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dawn	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep in	gerund		the cat			dawn		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme

Option 4

Shave the cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shave	shave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shave	imperative	you not said here	the cat					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient

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