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

In Tom and Jerry, Jerry hits Tom with a frying pan and gets away every time. What is real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jerry · What happens: hit, get away, be · To what, where: Tom

This is test 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. 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 Tom and Jerry, Jerry hits Tom with a frying pan and gets away every time.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Tom	case
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hits	obl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Jerry	cc
4	Jerry	Jerry	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Tom	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tom	punct
6	Jerry	Jerry	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hits	nsubj
7	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hits	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 pan	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pan	det
11	frying	frying	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pan	compound
12	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hits	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gets	cc
14	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hits	conj
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 gets	advmod
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gets	obl:unmarked
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	present	Jerry	Tom		Tom and Jerry		with a frying pan	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tom=Patient with pan=Instrument
2	get away	present	Jerry not said here				time	away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «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 real?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A real cat usually catches the mouse, as mice cannot fight back like that

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cat	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cat	amod
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 catches	nsubj
4	usually	usually	ADV	_	5 catches	advmod
5	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mouse	det
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 catches	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fight	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 fight	mark
10	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fight	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 fight	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 fight	advmod
13	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 catches	conj
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 fight	advmod
15	like	like	ADP	_	16 that	case
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 fight	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present	a real cat	the mouse				usually property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
2	not fight back	can	mice					like that	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Mice always beat cats, because they are much cleverer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 beat	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 beat	advmod
3	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 beat	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cleverer	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 cleverer	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cleverer	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cleverer	cop
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 cleverer	advmod
10	cleverer	clever	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 beat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present	Mice	cats				always property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cat=Theme
2	is	present	Mice = mouse					clever property	tree rules

Option 3

Mice and cats never meet in real life, they live apart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 meet	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 cats	cc
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mice	conj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 meet	advmod
5	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 life	case
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 life	amod
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meet	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 live	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 live	nsubj
11	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 meet	conj
12	apart	apart	ADV	_	11 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not meet	present	Mice and cats			real life			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	live	present	Mice = mouse					apart property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Cats are afraid of mice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 afraid	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 mice	case
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cats					of mice; afraid property	tree rules

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