Test 12 · ★★ · Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat

Why do people think cats lived with humans at least 9,500 years ago?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: people, cats · What happens: think, live · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 20 «Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 think	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 think	ccomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 humans	case
8	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 least	case
10	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 9,500	nmod
11	9,500	9,500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ago	obl:unmarked
13	ago	ago	ADV	_	6 lived	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · do-support	people						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	live	past	cats					with humans; ago property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with human=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

Old cave paintings show cats sitting next to people at the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 paintings	amod
2	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paintings	compound
3	paintings	painting	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 show	obj
6	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 cats	acl
7	next	next	ADV	_	6 sitting	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sitting	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 fire	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Old cave paintings		cats				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient
2	sit	gerund	cats not said here			the fire		to people; next property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at fire=Location

Option 2

Cats told us in old stories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 stories	case
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stories	amod
6	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Cats		us	old stories			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient

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

A cat was found buried with a person on Cyprus from that time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	aux:pass
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 found	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 person	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 person	det
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buried	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 Cyprus	case
10	Cyprus	Cyprus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 person	nmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 time	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive		a cat					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	bury	participle	a cat not said here				time	with a person on Cyprus	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Cats appear in the oldest books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 appear	nsubj
2	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 books	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 books	det
5	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 books	amod
6	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 appear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	present	Cats			the oldest books			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in book=Location

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