Test 10 · ★ · Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility

«cat's bored, just sits there all day, so what» What could help?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: be, sit, help

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 225 «Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility» 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 bored	punct
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bored	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bored	cop
4	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sits	punct
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 sits	advmod
7	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bored	parataxis
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 sits	advmod
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sits	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 what	advmod
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 sits	parataxis
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 help	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 help	aux
17	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 what	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bored	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	cat			bored property	tree rules
2	sit in a quote	present		there	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	help	could					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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

Nothing, cats are never bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 cats	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bored	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bored	cop
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 bored	advmod
6	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Nothing cats					bored property	tree rules

Option 2

Give it more food so it sleeps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 food	amod
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 sleeps	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sleeps	nsubj
7	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	more food	it				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient food=Theme
2	sleep	present	food						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Play hunting games with toys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 games	compound
3	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Play	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 toys	case
5	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	imperative	you not said here	hunting games				with toys	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent game=Theme with toy=Co-Agent

Option 4

Shut it in a smaller room alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shut	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 room	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 room	det
5	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 room	amod
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shut	obl
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Shut	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut	imperative	you not said here	it		a smaller room		alone property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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