Test 2 · ★ · Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill…

In a cartoon a cat touches a wire, his fur stands up, he goes black and walks off fine. What is true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat, fur · What happens: touch, stand up, go, walk off, be · To what, where: wire, cartoon

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 231 «Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees» 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon a cat touches a wire, his fur stands up, he goes black and walks off fine.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 touches	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 touches	nsubj
6	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wire	det
8	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 touches	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stands	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 fur	nmod:poss
11	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stands	nsubj
12	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 touches	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 stands	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 goes	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 goes	nsubj
16	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 touches	conj
17	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 goes	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 walks	cc
19	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 goes	conj
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 walks	compound:prt
21	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 walks	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 touches	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	touch	present	a cat	a wire	a cartoon		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wire=Co-Theme
2	stand up	present	cat's fur				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	present	fur			black property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	walk off	present	fur not said here			fine property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: 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.

Sentence 2: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Shocks only hurt if you are wet and cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shocks	shock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hurt	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 hurt	advmod
3	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 wet	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 wet	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wet	cop
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hurt	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cold	cc
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wet	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hurt	present	Shocks		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you	wet property	tree rules
3	be		you not said here		tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A real shock can stop the heart, so it is dangerous, not funny

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shock	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shock	amod
3	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stop	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 heart	det
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stop	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dangerous	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 dangerous	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dangerous	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dangerous	cop
12	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stop	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 funny	punct
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 funny	advmod
15	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dangerous	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	can	a real shock	the heart		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality heart=Eventuality
2	is	present	shock		dangerous property	tree rules
3	not be		shock not said here			tree rules

Option 3

Cats cannot be hurt by electricity, because their fur protects them like rubber

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hurt	nsubj:pass
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hurt	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hurt	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 hurt	aux:pass
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 electricity	case
7	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hurt	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 protects	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 protects	mark
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 fur	nmod:poss
11	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 protects	nsubj
12	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hurt	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 protects	obj
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 rubber	case
15	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 protects	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hurt	can · passive	electricity	Cats					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient
2	protect	present	Cats's fur	Cats = cat				like rubber	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Real shocks only make fur fluffy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shocks	amod
2	shocks	shock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 make	advmod
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
6	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Real shocks	fur				fluffy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fur=Product

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