Test 7 · ★ · A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play

«my kitten's got blue eyes so it'll stay blue forever» What is the truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kitten · What happens: get, stay, be · To what, where: blue eyes, truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	_	5 got	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 kitten	nmod:poss
3	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 got	aux
5	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 truth	csubj
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eyes	amod
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 stay	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stay	nsubj
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 stay	aux
11	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 got	xcomp
12	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stay	xcomp
13	forever	forever	ADV	_	11 stay	advmod
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 truth	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 truth	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 truth	det
18	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 truth	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · passive	my kitten	blue eyes		tree rules
2	stay in a quote	future	kitten		blue, forever property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present		the truth		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

Eyes go blue only when kittens are sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 go	xcomp
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 sad	advmod
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 sad	mark
6	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sad	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sad	cop
8	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 go	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Eyes					blue property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	kittens					sad property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, blue at birth means blue for life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 blue	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 birth	case
5	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blue	obl
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 life	case
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blue	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	blue					blue property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

All kittens start with blue eyes; the real colour shows from about six or seven weeks

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 kittens	det
2	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 start	nsubj
3	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 eyes	case
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eyes	amod
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 start	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 shows	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 colour	det
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 colour	amod
10	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shows	nsubj
11	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 start	parataxis
12	from	from	ADP	_	17 weeks	case
13	about	about	ADV	_	14 six	advmod
14	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 weeks	nummod
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 seven	cc
16	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 six	conj
17	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	all kittens					with blue eyes	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with eye=Subeventuality
2	show	present	the real colour				week		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Only white kittens have blue eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 white	advmod
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kittens	amod
3	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eyes	amod
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	white kittens	blue eyes					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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