Test 10 · ★ · A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play

«why does my cat knead my jumper like dough» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat, best answer · What happens: knead, be · To what, where: jumper · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 327 «A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play» 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	_	6 knead	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 knead	advmod
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 knead	aux
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cat	nmod:poss
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knead	nsubj
6	knead	knead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 What	parataxis
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 jumper	nmod:poss
8	jumper	jumper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knead	obj
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 dough	case
10	dough	dough	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knead	obl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 knead	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 What	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 answer	det
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 answer	amod
16	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 What	nsubj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knead in a quote	present · do-support	my cat	my jumper				like dough	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent jumper=Material
2	is a	present	the best answer						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

It is an old kitten habit from feeding, done when it is relaxed

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	6 habit	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 habit	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 habit	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 habit	amod
5	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 habit	compound
6	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 feeding	case
8	feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 habit	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 done	punct
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 habit	acl:relcl
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 relaxed	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 relaxed	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 relaxed	cop
14	relaxed	relaxed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 done	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a old kitten habit	feeding		tree rules
2	do	participle		a old kitten habit not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	feeding			relaxed property	tree rules

Option 2

It wants to bake bread

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 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 bake	mark
4	bake	bake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bake	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	It						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	bake not said to happen	to-infinitive		bread					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Product

Option 3

It is angry at the jumper

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	3 angry	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 jumper	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 jumper	det
6	jumper	jumper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 angry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			the jumper		angry property	tree rules

Option 4

It is checking for mice hiding inside the jumper, ready to pounce

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	3 checking	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 checking	aux
3	checking	check	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 mice	case
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 checking	obl
6	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 mice	acl
7	inside	inside	ADP	_	9 jumper	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 jumper	det
9	jumper	jumper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hiding	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ready	punct
11	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 checking	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 pounce	mark
13	pounce	pounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 ready	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	check	present · progressive	It		for mice	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for mouse=Attribute
2	hide	gerund	mice not said here	the jumper		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside jumper=Location
3	pounce	to-infinitive				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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