Test 7 · Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house

Why might a cat prefer a pet sitter at home to a cattery?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat · What happens: prefer · To what, where: pet sitter, home

This is test 7 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	5 prefer	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 prefer	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prefer	nsubj
5	prefer	prefer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sitter	det
7	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitter	compound
8	sitter	sitter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prefer	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 home	case
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prefer	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 cattery	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cattery	det
13	cattery	cattery	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prefer	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 prefer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prefer	might	a cat	a pet sitter		home		to a cattery	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sitter=Stimulus

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 cannot sleep in a cattery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sleep	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sleep	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sleep	advmod
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cattery	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cattery	det
7	cattery	cattery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sleep	can	Cats			a cattery			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in cattery=Location

Option 2

Sitters let cats go outside on holiday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitters	sitter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 let	obj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	outside	outside	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 holiday	case
7	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	Sitters	cats					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	cats not said here			holiday		outside property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on holiday=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It can stay calm in its own home

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	3 stay	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 home	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 home	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 home	amod
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	can	It			its own home		calm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in home=Location

Option 4

Catteries never feed cats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Catteries	cattery	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feed	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 feed	advmod
3	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not feed	present	Catteries		cats				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient

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