Test 11 · ★ · Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and land…

«why'd the cat stick its bum in my face, rude» What is the real meaning?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat · What happens: stick, be · To what, where: bum, face, real meaning

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 199 «Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet» 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 stick	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 stick	advmod
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stick	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stick	nsubj
6	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bum	nmod:poss
8	bum	bum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stick	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 face	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 face	nmod:poss
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stick	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rude	punct
13	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stick	conj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 stick	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 meaning	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 meaning	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 meaning	det
18	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 meaning	amod
19	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stick	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 stick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick in a quote	would	the cat	cat's bum		my face			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bum=Theme in face=Destination
2	is a	present		the real meaning					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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is a friendly cat hello

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 cat	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cat	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
4	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cat	amod
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	hello	hello	INTJ	_	5 cat	appos

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

Option 2

It wants you to leave

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	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 wants	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 leave	mark
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	It	you					tree rules
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It hates you

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	2 hates	nsubj
2	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 hates	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	It	you					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 4

It is ill

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					ill 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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