Test 12 · ★★★ · Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and T…

Why do some places in Australia ask cat owners to keep cats inside?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: places, cat owners · What happens: do, ask, keep · To what, where: cat owners, cats

This is test 12 · ★★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ask	advcl
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 places	det
4	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ask	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Australia	case
6	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 places	nmod
7	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 owners	compound
9	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ask	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 keep	mark
11	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ask	xcomp
12	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 keep	obj
13	inside	inside	ADV	_	11 keep	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	some places in Australia not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	present	some places in Australia	cat owners		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient clause=Topic
3	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	cat owners not said here	cats	inside property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme

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

Australian cats are dangerous to people and often attack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cats	amod
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dangerous	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dangerous	cop
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dangerous	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 attack	cc
8	often	often	ADV	_	9 attack	advmod
9	attack	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dangerous	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Australian cats					to people; dangerous property	tree rules
2	attack	present	Australian cats not said here					often property	vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Cats there are too hot outside in the burning summer sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hot	nsubj
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 are	expl
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hot	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 hot	advmod
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 hot	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 sun	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
9	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 summer	compound
10	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sun	compound
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cats			the summer sun		hot, outside property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Kangaroos chase cats and kick them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chase	nsubj
2	chase	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chase	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 kick	cc
5	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 chase	conj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	present	Kangaroos	cats					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme
2	kick	infinitive	Kangaroos not said here	cats = cat					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cats are a big threat to native birds and small animals there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 threat	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 threat	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 threat	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 threat	amod
5	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 birds	case
7	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 birds	amod
8	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 threat	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 animals	cc
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 animals	amod
11	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 birds	conj
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 threat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Cats	a big threat		there		to native birds and small animals	tree rules

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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