Test 2 · ★★★ · Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and T…

«Tom laps a saucer of milk, so I'll give our cat one too» What is better?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tom, I · What happens: lap, give, be · To what, where: saucer, cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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	_	3 laps	punct
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 laps	nsubj
3	laps	lap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 saucer	det
5	saucer	saucer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laps	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 milk	case
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saucer	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 give	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 give	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 give	aux
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 better	parataxis
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 cat	nmod:poss
14	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 cat	flat
16	too	too	ADV	_	12 give	advmod
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 better	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 better	cop
20	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 laps	parataxis
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 laps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lap in a quote	present	Tom	a saucer of milk		tree rules
2	give in a quote	future	I	our cat		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme
3	is	present			good property	tree rules

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

Give her lemonade instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 lemonade	nmod:poss
3	lemonade	lemonade	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
4	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	her lemonade				instead property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lemonade=Theme

Option 2

Give her nothing to drink at all, cats get water from food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Give	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 drink	mark
5	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 nothing	acl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 drink	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 get	punct
9	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 get	nsubj
10	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	parataxis
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 food	case
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	nothing	her = she		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient nothing=Theme
2	drink	to-infinitive	you not said here	nothing not said here		all	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get	present	cats	water		food	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from food=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Give water; milk can upset most grown-up cats' tummies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 upset	punct
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 upset	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 upset	aux
6	upset	upset	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	advcl
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 grown	advmod
8	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 cats	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 up	punct
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 grown	compound:prt
11	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tummies	nmod:poss
12	'	's	PART	_	11 cats	case
13	tummies	tummy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 upset	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	water	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	upset	can	milk	grown cats's tummies	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tummy=Experiencer
3	grow up	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Milk is the best drink for cats, just like in the cartoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drink	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 drink	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 drink	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 drink	amod
5	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 cats	case
7	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drink	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cartoon	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	13 cartoon	advmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 cartoon	case
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 cartoon	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cartoon	det
13	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drink	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Milk	the best drink and the cartoon				for cats	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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