Test 9 · ★★★ · Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and T…

«Garfield's lazy, all cats are lazy, sleep all day» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lazy cats · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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	_	9 lazy	punct
2	Garfield	Garfield	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cats	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Garfield	case
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cats	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lazy	punct
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 cats	det
7	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lazy	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lazy	cop
9	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 right	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sleep	punct
11	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lazy	conj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lazy	obl:unmarked
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 lazy	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Garfield's lazy cats				day	lazy property	tree rules
2	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cats sleep a lot to save energy for short bursts of hunting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sleep	nsubj
2	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lot	det
4	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sleep	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 save	mark
6	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sleep	advcl
7	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 save	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 bursts	case
9	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bursts	amod
10	bursts	burst	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 save	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 hunting	case
12	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bursts	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	Cats	a lot		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme
2	save	to-infinitive	Cats not said here	energy	for short bursts of hunting	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent energy=Theme for burst=Source
3	burst			hunting		nom burst «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Only cartoon cats sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 cats	advmod
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cats	compound
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sleep	nsubj
4	sleep	sleep	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	sleep	present	cartoon cats						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Cats are lazy because they are ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lazy	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lazy	cop
3	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 ill	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ill	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ill	cop
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lazy	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cats					lazy property	tree rules
2	is	present	Cats = cat					ill property	tree rules

Option 4

Cats sleep because they are sad and lonely without people around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sleep	nsubj
2	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 sad	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sad	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sad	cop
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sleep	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lonely	cc
8	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sad	conj
9	without	without	ADP	_	10 people	case
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sleep	obl
11	around	around	ADV	_	2 sleep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	Cats	without people; around property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Cats = cat	sad property	tree rules
3	be		Cats = cat not said here		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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