Test 4 · Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house

Why might a scared cat not come when you call its name?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: scared cat, you, cat · What happens: not come, call, name · To what, where: name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 of lesson 332 «Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house» 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 come	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cat	amod
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 come	advmod
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 call	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 call	nsubj
10	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 come	advcl
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 name	nmod:poss
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 call	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not come	might	a scared cat		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call	present	you	cat's name	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
3	name		cat		nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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

Cats forget their names in two days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forget	nsubj
2	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 names	nmod:poss
4	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forget	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 days	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 days	nummod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forget	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present	Cats	Cats's names			day		tree rules
2	name		Cats = cat						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Cats cannot hear quiet human voices

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hear	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hear	advmod
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 voices	amod
6	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 voices	amod
7	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	can	Cats	quiet human voices					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus

Option 3

Cats will only ever answer to whistles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 answer	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 answer	advmod
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 answer	advmod
5	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 whistles	case
7	whistles	whistle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 answer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	future	Cats				ever	to whistles	vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to whistle=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Scared cats tend to hide silently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cats	amod
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tend	nsubj
3	tend	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hide	mark
5	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tend	xcomp
6	silently	silently	ADV	_	5 hide	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tend	present	Scared cats						tree rules
2	hide	to-infinitive	Scared cats not said here					silently property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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