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Test 5 · Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house

Grandad says: «butter the cat's paws when you move, then she'll stay.» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandad, you, cat · What happens: say, move, stay, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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

Sentence 1: Grandad says: «butter the cat's paws when you move, then she'll stay.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 paws	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 butter	punct
5	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 paws	compound
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 paws	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 cat	case
9	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 says	ccomp
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 move	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 move	nsubj
12	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stay	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 stay	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stay	nsubj
16	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 stay	aux
17	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 move	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 move	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 move	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Grandad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	move in a quote	present	you						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	stay in a quote	future	cat				then		vn exist-47.1 «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: What is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It works on every cat

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 works	nsubj
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 cat	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	It					on every cat	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on cat=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It does not help; keep her inside for a couple of weeks instead

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	4 help	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 help	advmod
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keep	obj
8	inside	inside	ADV	_	6 keep	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 couple	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 couple	det
11	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 weeks	case
13	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 couple	nmod
14	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 help	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	present · do-support	It					instead property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen	infinitive		her = she				for a couple of weeks; inside property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

It works only with salted butter

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 works	nsubj
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 butter	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 butter	case
5	salted	salt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 butter	amod
6	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	It					with salted butter	vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with butter=Co-Agent
2	salt	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It works, but only if you butter all four paws twice with salted butter

The tree, 14 words

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 works	nsubj
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 paws	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 paws	cc
5	only	only	ADV	_	11 paws	advmod
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 paws	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 paws	nsubj
8	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 you	flat
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 paws	det
10	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 paws	nummod
11	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 works	obl
12	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 works	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 butter	case
14	salted	salt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 butter	amod
15	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	It					with salted butter; twice property	vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with butter=Co-Agent
2	paw a condition, not said to happen		you						tree rules
3	salt	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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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