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Test 11 · ★ · A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play

A kitten arrives in a house with a dog. Why does it need high shelves?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kitten · What happens: arrive, need · To what, where: house, high shelves

This is test 11 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A kitten arrives in a house with a dog.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kitten	det
2	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrives	nsubj
3	arrives	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrives	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 dog	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 house	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 arrives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	present	a kitten			a house with a dog			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: Why does it need high shelves?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 need	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 need	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shelves	amod
6	shelves	shelf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present · do-support	kitten	high shelves					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot shelf=Theme

The options

Option 1

Kittens sleep only on shelves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sleep	nsubj
2	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 shelves	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 shelves	case
5	shelves	shelf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	Kittens			shelves			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

To hide its food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 food	nmod:poss
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive		its food					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

So it can escape up out of the dog's reach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 escape	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 escape	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 escape	aux
4	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 escape	compound:prt
6	out	out	ADP	_	11 reach	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 reach	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reach	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 dog	case
11	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 escape	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape up	can	it			the dog's reach			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out reach=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

So it can see the television

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 television	det
6	television	television	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	it	the television					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer television=Stimulus

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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