Test 4 · ★ · Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and land…

«black cat walked in front of my bike, I'm doomed today» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: black cat · What happens: walk, doom, be · To what, where: front, I

This is test 4 · ★ 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	_	4 walked	punct
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cat	amod
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	nsubj
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 front	case
6	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 bike	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bike	nmod:poss
9	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 front	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 doomed	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 doomed	nsubj
12	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 doomed	aux:pass
13	doomed	doom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 walked	conj
14	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 doomed	obl:unmarked
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 doomed	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 doomed	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk in a quote	past	black cat		front of my bike			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory
2	doom in a quote	present · passive		I		today		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

Yes, seven years of bad luck, starting from the moment it crossed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 luck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 luck	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 luck	case
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 luck	amod
7	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 starting	punct
9	starting	start	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 luck	acl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 moment	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 moment	det
12	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 starting	obl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 crossed	nsubj
14	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 moment	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	gerund	bad luck not said here				moment		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	cross	past	luck	the moment not said here					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moment=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No, only white cats bring bad luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 bring	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bring	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 cats	advmod
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cats	amod
5	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bring	nsubj
6	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 luck	amod
8	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	white cats	bad luck					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, it is only a myth, the cat brings no bad luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 myth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 myth	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 myth	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 myth	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 myth	det
7	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 brings	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brings	nsubj
11	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 myth	parataxis
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 luck	det
13	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 luck	amod
14	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brings	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a myth					tree rules
2	bring	present	the cat	no bad luck					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme

Option 4

Yes, but only on Fridays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 Fridays	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 Fridays	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 Fridays	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 Fridays	case
6	Fridays	Friday	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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