Test 3 · ★ · A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play
Count them: Tom chases Jerry round the kitchen. If Tom were a real cat, how many toes on his four paws?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Tom · What happens: count, chase, be · To what, where: them, Jerry, kitchen, real cat
This is test 3 · ★ 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: Count them: Tom chases Jerry round the kitchen.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Count | obj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 chases | punct |
| 4 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 chases | nsubj |
| 5 | chases | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 6 | Jerry | Jerry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 chases | obj |
| 7 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 kitchen | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kitchen | det |
| 9 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chases | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Count | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | imperative | you not said here | them = they | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | chase | present | Tom | Jerry | the kitchen | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent jerry=Theme round kitchen=Trajectory |
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: If Tom were a real cat, how many toes on his four paws?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 2 Tom | mark |
| 2 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cat | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cat | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cat | det |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cat | amod |
| 6 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 toes | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 many | advmod |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 toes | amod |
| 10 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cat | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 paws | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 paws | nmod:poss |
| 13 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 paws | nummod |
| 14 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 toes | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 cat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Tom | a real cat and many toes on Tom's four paws | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
16
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
18
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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