Exam question 1 · Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and T…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the domestication of the cat.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, domestication

This is exam question 1 of lesson 294 «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 domestication	det
11	domestication	domestication	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 cat	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cat	det
14	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 domestication	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the domestication of the cat		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus domestication=Experiencer

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

Cats were domesticated before the dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 domesticated	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 domesticated	aux:pass
3	domesticated	domesticate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	before	before	ADP	_	6 dog	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 domesticated	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	domesticate	past · passive	the dog	Cats					vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Wild cats were drawn to early farming settlements by rodents and were tolerated there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cats	amod
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drawn	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drawn	aux:pass
4	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 settlements	case
6	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 settlements	amod
7	farming	farming	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 settlements	compound
8	settlements	settlement	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drawn	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 rodents	case
10	rodents	rodent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drawn	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tolerated	cc
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tolerated	aux:pass
13	tolerated	tolerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 drawn	conj
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 tolerated	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past · passive	rodents	Wild cats		early farming settlements			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to settlement=Destination
2	tolerate	past · passive	rodents not said here			there			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»

Option 3

Cats were deliberately captured and bred by Egyptian kings from the outset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 captured	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 captured	aux:pass
3	deliberately	deliberately	ADV	_	4 captured	advmod
4	captured	capture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bred	cc
6	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 captured	conj
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 kings	case
8	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kings	amod
9	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bred	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 outset	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 outset	det
12	outset	outset	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bred	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	capture	past · passive		Cats				deliberately property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	breed	participle				the outset		by Egyptian kings	tree rules

Option 4

Cats descended from the lion, which was gradually reduced in size by selective breeding

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 descended	nsubj
2	descended	descend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 lion	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lion	det
5	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 descended	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 reduced	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 reduced	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 reduced	aux:pass
9	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	10 reduced	advmod
10	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lion	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 size	case
12	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reduced	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 breeding	case
14	selective	selective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 breeding	amod
15	breeding	breeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reduced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	descend	past	Cats					from the lion	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from lion=Location
2	reduce	past · passive	selective breeding	the lion		size		gradually property	vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Patient

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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