Test 8 · ★★★ · Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and T…

«our cat purrs, so she's fine, even though she's limping» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat · What happens: purr, be, limp · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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	_	4 purrs	punct
2	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cat	nmod:poss
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 purrs	nsubj
4	purrs	purr	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fine	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 fine	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fine	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fine	cop
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 purrs	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 limping	punct
11	even	even	ADV	_	15 limping	advmod
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 limping	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 limping	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 limping	aux
15	limping	limp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 fine	csubj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 limping	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 right	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 limping	ccomp
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 purrs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	purr in a quote	present	our cat		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	cat	fine property	tree rules
3	limp in a quote	present · progressive	cat		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
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

Purring heals any injury

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Purring	purr	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 heals	nsubj
2	heals	heal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 injury	det
4	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heals	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	purr	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	heal	present		any injury					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent injury=Patient

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

Cats purr when hurt too, so she may need a vet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 purr	nsubj
2	purr	purr	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 hurt	advmod
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 purr	advcl
5	too	too	ADV	_	4 hurt	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 need	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 need	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 need	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 need	aux
10	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 purr	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 vet	det
12	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	purr	present	Cats		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hurt	participle	Cats not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	need	may	she	a vet	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vet=Theme

Option 3

Purring means she cannot be hurt, so the limp is nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Purring	purr	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hurt	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hurt	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 hurt	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 hurt	aux:pass
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 means	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nothing	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 nothing	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 limp	det
11	limp	limp	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nothing	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 nothing	cop
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 means	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	purr	gerund			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not hurt	can · passive		she	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	is a	present	the limp	nothing	tree rules

Option 4

Limping cats never purr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Limping	limp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 cats	amod
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 purr	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 purr	advmod
4	purr	purr	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	limp	gerund							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not purr	present	Limping cats						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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