Test 10 · Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first

Why might a hairless cat still make someone sneeze?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hairless cat, you · What happens: make, sneeze · To what, where: someone

This is test 10 of lesson 325 «Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first» 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	7 make	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 make	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
4	hairless	hairless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cat	amod
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	nsubj
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 make	advmod
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sneeze	advcl
8	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 make	obj
9	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 sneeze	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	might	a hairless cat	someone			still		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Product
2	sneeze	imperative	you not said here						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Hairless cats are made of fur inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hairless	hairless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cats	amod
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 fur	case
6	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
7	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 made	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Hairless cats				of fur; inside property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Allergies come from skin and spit, which it still has

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Allergies	allergy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 skin	case
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 spit	cc
6	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skin	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 has	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 has	obj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 has	nsubj
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 has	advmod
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 skin	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Allergies			skin and spit			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from skin=Initial_Location
2	have	present	spit	skin and spit			still		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient

Option 3

It cannot; hairless cats are always safe

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 can	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 can	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 safe	punct
5	hairless	hairless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cats	amod
6	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 safe	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 safe	cop
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 safe	advmod
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 can	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	hairless cats					always, safe property	tree rules

Option 4

Hairless cats sneeze on people, and the sneeze spreads to them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hairless	hairless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cats	amod
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sneeze	nsubj
3	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sneeze	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spreads	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 spreads	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sneeze	det
9	sneeze	sneeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spreads	nsubj
10	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sneeze	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 spreads	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneeze	present	Hairless cats					on people	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spread	present	the sneeze		cats = cat				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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