Test 1 · ★★ · Cartoon pets and animal myths put right

«my cat's a proper Garfield, I give him spaghetti every night» What is the problem?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat, I · What happens: be, give · To what, where: proper Garfield, spaghetti, cat, problem

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 228 «Cartoon pets and animal myths put right» 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 Garfield	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cat	nmod:poss
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Garfield	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Garfield	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Garfield	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Garfield	amod
7	Garfield	garfield	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 give	nsubj
10	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Garfield	parataxis
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 give	iobj
12	spaghetti	spaghetti	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 give	obj
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 give	obl:unmarked
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 Garfield	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 problem	obj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 problem	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 problem	det
19	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Garfield	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 Garfield	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	my cat	a proper Garfield and the problem			tree rules
2	give in a quote	present	I	spaghetti	cat	night	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient spaghetti=Theme
3	is a	present	my cat not said here	the problem			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

Nothing, cats love spaghetti most

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	4 love	nsubj
4	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	spaghetti	spaghetti	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 love	obj
6	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 love	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	Nothing cats	spaghetti				most obl	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spaghetti=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Cats should eat only cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 cake	advmod
5	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	should	Cats	cake					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient

Option 3

Cats should eat only grass and leaves, like rabbits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 grass	advmod
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 leaves	cc
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grass	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rabbits	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 rabbits	case
10	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	should	Cats	grass and leaves				like rabbits	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cats need meat, and pasta is no proper food for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 food	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 food	cc
6	pasta	pasta	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 food	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 food	cop
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 food	det
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 food	amod
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 food	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Cats	meat					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot meat=Theme
2	is a	present	pasta	no proper food				for Cats = cat	tree rules

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