Test 11 · ★★★ · Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and T…

«why'd anyone grind up thousands of cat mummies» What happened in the 1800s?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: anyone, cat mummies · What happens: grind up, happen · To what, where: thousands, 1800s

This is test 11 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 grind	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 grind	advmod
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grind	aux
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 grind	nsubj
5	grind	grind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 grind	compound:prt
7	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grind	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 mummies	case
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mummies	compound
10	mummies	mummy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thousands	nmod
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 mummies	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 happened	nsubj
13	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 mummies	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 1800s	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 1800s	det
16	1800s	1800	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	13 happened	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 grind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grind up in a quote	would	anyone	thousands of cat mummies					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient
2	happen	past	cat mummies			the 1800s			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in 1800=Location

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

They were sold as dolls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sold	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sold	aux:pass
3	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 dolls	case
5	dolls	doll	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past · passive		They				as dolls	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They were made into medicine for sick cats and dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 medicine	case
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 cats	case
7	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cats	amod
8	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dogs	cc
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cats	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		They		medicine		for sick cats and dogs	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.product PP.beneficiary»: subject=Material into medicine=Product for cat=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

So many were found that some were used as fertiliser

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 found	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	aux:pass
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 used	mark
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 used	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 used	aux:pass
8	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 found	advcl
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 fertiliser	case
10	fertiliser	fertiliser	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive		many					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	use	past · passive		some				as fertiliser	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as fertiliser=Attribute

Option 4

It never happened, it's a myth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 happened	advmod
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 myth	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 myth	expl
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 myth	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 myth	det
8	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happened	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not happen	past	It						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		a myth					tree rules

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