Test 4 · ★★ · Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and…

«my cat ignores me when I call, she doesn't even know her name» What is probably true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat, I · What happens: ignore, call, not know, be, name · To what, where: me, name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 ignores	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	4 ignores	nsubj
4	ignores	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 true	csubj
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 ignores	obj
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 call	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 call	nsubj
8	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 know	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 call	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 know	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 know	advmod
13	even	even	ADV	_	14 know	advmod
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ignores	parataxis
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 name	nmod:poss
16	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 know	obj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 ignores	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 true	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 true	cop
20	probably	probably	ADV	_	21 true	advmod
21	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ignore in a quote	present	my cat	me		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	call in a quote	present	I			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not know in a quote	present · do-support	cat	cat's name		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
4	is	present			probably, true property	tree rules
5	name in a quote		cat			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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

She is deaf in both ears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 deaf	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 deaf	cop
3	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 ears	case
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 ears	det
6	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 deaf	obl

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She knows it, but chooses not to come

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knows	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 chooses	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 chooses	cc
6	chooses	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 knows	conj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 come	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 come	mark
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 chooses	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know	present	She	it	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	choose	present	She not said here		tree rules
3	not come	to-infinitive	She not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Cats cannot hear names

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hear	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hear	advmod
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	can	Cats	names					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus

Option 4

Her name is too long for her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 name	nmod:poss
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 long	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 long	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 long	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Her name					for her = she; long property	tree rules
2	name		Her = she						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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