Test 2 · ★★ · Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and…
A cartoon mouse risks a trap for a big wedge of cheese. What would a real mouse go for first?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon mouse · What happens: risk, go · To what, where: trap
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 237 «Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?)» 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: A cartoon mouse risks a trap for a big wedge of cheese.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mouse | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mouse | compound |
| 3 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 risks | nsubj |
| 4 | risks | risk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 trap | det |
| 6 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 risks | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 wedge | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wedge | det |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wedge | amod |
| 10 | wedge | wedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trap | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 cheese | case |
| 12 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wedge | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 risks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | risk | present | a cartoon mouse | a trap | for a big wedge of cheese | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Pivot |
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 would a real mouse go for first?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 go | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mouse | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mouse | amod |
| 5 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | nsubj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 first | case |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 go | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | would | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for first=Beneficiary |
The options
Option 1
A lump of salt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lump | det |
| 2 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 salt | case |
| 4 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lump | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nothing, mice do not eat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 mice | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 eat | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 eat | advmod |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | present · do-support | Nothing mice | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Peanut butter or seeds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peanut | peanut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 butter | compound |
| 2 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 seeds | cc |
| 4 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 butter | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The cheese, every time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cheese | det |
| 2 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cheese | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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