Test 4 · ★★★ · Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and T…

«saw a vid, cucumber behind a cat, it freaked lol, gonna try it» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat · What happens: see, freak, try, be · To what, where: vid, cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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	_	2 saw	punct
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 vid	det
4	vid	vid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cucumber	punct
6	cucumber	cucumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vid	conj
7	behind	behind	ADP	_	9 cat	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cucumber	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 freaked	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 freaked	nsubj
12	freaked	freak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	16 try	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lol	punct
15	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	16 try	dep
16	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 freaked	ccomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 try	obj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 try	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 right	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 right	cop
21	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 freaked	ccomp
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	past		a vid and cucumber behind a cat		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vid=Stimulus
2	freak in a quote	past	cat			tree rules
3	try in a quote	infinitive	cat not said here	cat		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	is	present			right 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

It is a fun game that cats really enjoy playing again and again

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	5 game	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 game	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 game	det
4	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 game	amod
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 enjoy	obj
7	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 enjoy	nsubj
8	really	really	ADV	_	9 enjoy	advmod
9	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 game	acl:relcl
10	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 enjoy	xcomp
11	again	again	ADV	_	10 playing	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 again	cc
13	again	again	ADV	_	11 again	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a fun game		tree rules
2	enjoy	present	cats	a fun game		tree rules
3	play	gerund	cats not said here		again	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It frightens the cat, and scaring pets on purpose is unkind

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	2 frightens	nsubj
2	frightens	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 frightens	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 unkind	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 unkind	cc
7	scaring	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 unkind	csubj
8	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 scaring	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 purpose	case
10	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scaring	obl
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 unkind	cop
12	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 frightens	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	frighten	present	It	the cat			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cat=Experiencer
2	scare	gerund		pets	purpose		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pet=Experiencer
3	is	present	scaring			unkind property	tree rules

Option 3

Cats like cucumbers to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 cucumbers	case
3	cucumbers	cucumber	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cats	nmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Cats	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It does nothing to a cat

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	2 does	nsubj
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 does	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 cat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	It	nothing				to a cat	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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