Test 6 · ★ · Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and land…

What would happen if you blinked slowly at a calm cat across the room?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, blink · To what, where: room

This is test 6 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 blinked	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 blinked	nsubj
6	blinked	blink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	6 blinked	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 cat	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cat	det
10	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cat	amod
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blinked	obl
12	across	across	ADP	_	14 room	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 room	det
14	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blinked	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	blink a condition, not said to happen	past	you			the room		at a calm cat; slowly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cat=Location

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

Many cats would blink slowly back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cats	amod
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blink	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 blink	aux
4	blink	blink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 blink	advmod
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 blink	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blink back	would	Many cats					slowly property	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It would run away screaming

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 run	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 run	advmod
5	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 run	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	would	It					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	scream speech: express	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It would hiss and attack

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 hiss	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hiss	aux
3	hiss	hiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 attack	cc
5	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hiss	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hiss	would	It						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	attack	infinitive							vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It would fall asleep at once

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 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fall	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	It					asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location

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