Test 12 · ★ · Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and land…

«the cat's hissing and flattening its ears, gonna pick it up for a cuddle» What should happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hissing, cuddle, cat · What happens: flatten, pick up, happen, hiss · To what, where: ears, hissing

This is test 12 · ★ 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	_	7 flattening	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hissing	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 cat	case
5	hissing	hissing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flattening	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 flattening	cc
7	flattening	flatten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ears	nmod:poss
9	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 flattening	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pick	punct
11	gonna	gonna	PART	_	12 pick	mark
12	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 flattening	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pick	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 pick	compound:prt
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 cuddle	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cuddle	det
17	cuddle	cuddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pick	obl
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 cuddle	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 happen	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 happen	aux
21	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 cuddle	acl:relcl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 flattening	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	flatten in a quote	gerund	the cat's hissing	hissing's ears		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
2	pick up in a quote	infinitive		hissing	for a cuddle	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	happen	should	a cuddle			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hiss in a quote		the cat			nom hissing «event transitive»: poss=agent

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

Pick it up quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pick	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Pick	compound:prt
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Pick	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	imperative	you not said here	it				quickly property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Leave it alone until it calms down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Leave	advmod
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	6 calms	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 calms	nsubj
6	calms	calm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	advcl
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 calms	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	calm down	present	it						vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Blow in its face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 face	case
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 face	nmod:poss
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	imperative	you not said here			its face			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Hiss back to show who's boss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hiss	hiss	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Hiss	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 show	mark
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hiss	advcl
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 boss	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 boss	cop
7	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 show	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hiss back	imperative	you not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	show	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		boss	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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