Test 2 · ★ · Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colou…

«cats don't dream, they're just thick and twitchy» What is the best correction?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cats, best correction · What happens: not dream, be

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 391 «Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses» 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 dream	punct
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dream	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dream	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 dream	advmod
5	dream	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thick	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thick	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thick	cop
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 thick	advmod
10	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dream	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 twitchy	cc
12	twitchy	twitchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thick	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 twitchy	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 thick	conj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 What	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 correction	det
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 correction	amod
18	correction	correction	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 What	nsubj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dream	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not dream in a quote	present · do-support	cats		vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	cats = cat	thick property	tree rules
3	be in a quote		cats = cat not said here		tree rules
4	is a	present	the best correction		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

Right, cats have no sleep stages at all, they just doze lightly all day

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 stages	det
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stages	compound
7	stages	stage	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 stages	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 doze	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 doze	nsubj
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 doze	advmod
13	doze	doze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	conj
14	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	13 doze	advmod
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 doze	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	cats	no sleep stages		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stage=Patient
2	doze	present	cats = cat				day	lightly property	vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cats have the same busy dreaming stage of sleep as people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stage	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stage	amod
5	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stage	amod
6	dreaming	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stage	amod
7	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 sleep	case
9	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stage	nmod
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 people	case
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stage	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Cats	the same busy dreaming stage of sleep				as people	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stage=Patient
2	dream	gerund							vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Cats only ever dream when they are wide awake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dream	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 dream	advmod
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 dream	advmod
4	dream	dream	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 awake	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 awake	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 awake	cop
8	wide	wide	ADV	_	9 awake	advmod
9	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dream	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dream	infinitive	Cats				ever		vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Cats = cat					awake, wide property	tree rules

Option 4

Right, only dogs can dream and cats are just twitchy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	6 dream	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 dogs	advmod
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dream	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 dream	aux
6	dream	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 twitchy	cc
8	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 twitchy	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 twitchy	cop
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 twitchy	advmod
11	twitchy	twitchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dream	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dream	can	dogs						vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	cats					twitchy property	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/391-do-animals-dream-twitching-dogs-replaying-rats-and-colour-changing-octopuses/t2/