Test 4 · ★ · Foxes and squirrels

«a fox is just a cat in disguise lol» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: fox, cat · What happens: be · To what, where: cat, disguise

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 215 «Foxes and squirrels» 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 cat	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cat	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cat	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 cat	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 right	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 disguise	case
9	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cat	nmod
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	14 right	discourse
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 lol	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	a fox	a cat		disguise			tree rules
2	is	present	a cat					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

Foxes are a kind of bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kind	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 bear	case
6	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Foxes	a kind				of bear	tree rules

Option 2

Foxes are just cats with long pointed noses and big bushy tails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cats	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cats	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 cats	advmod
4	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 noses	case
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 noses	amod
7	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 noses	amod
8	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cats	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tails	cc
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tails	amod
11	bushy	bushy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tails	amod
12	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cats	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Foxes	cats and big bushy tails				with long pointed noses	tree rules
2	point	participle							vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Foxes are in the dog family, though they hunt and climb a bit like cats

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 family	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 family	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 family	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 family	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 family	compound
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hunt	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 hunt	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hunt	nsubj
10	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 family	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 climb	cc
12	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hunt	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bit	det
14	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 climb	obj
15	like	like	ADP	_	16 cats	case
16	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 climb	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Foxes		the dog family		tree rules
2	hunt	present	Foxes = fox				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	climb	present	Foxes = fox not said here	a bit		like cats	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location bit=Theme

Option 4

Foxes are rodents like squirrels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rodents	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rodents	cop
3	rodents	rodent	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 squirrels	case
5	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rodents	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Foxes	rodents				like squirrels	tree rules

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