Test 3 · ★ · Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colou…

What would happen if a sleeping cat's brain did not stop its body during dreaming sleep?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: brain · What happens: happen, not stop, dream · To what, where: body, sleep

This is test 3 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 stop	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cat	det
6	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cat	compound
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brain	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 cat	case
9	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stop	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stop	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 stop	advmod
12	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	advcl
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 body	nmod:poss
14	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stop	obj
15	during	during	ADP	_	16 dreaming	case
16	dreaming	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 stop	xcomp
17	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dreaming	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not stop a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	a sleeping cat's brain	brain's body	tree rules
3	dream	gerund	a sleeping cat's brain not said here	sleep	vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

It might jump up and act out its dream, chasing things that are not there

The tree, 15 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	3 jump	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 jump	aux
3	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 jump	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 act	cc
6	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 jump	conj
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 act	compound:prt
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dream	nmod:poss
9	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 act	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 chasing	punct
11	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 jump	advcl
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 chasing	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 there	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 there	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 there	advmod
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 things	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	jump up	might	It			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	act out	infinitive		its dream		vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent dream=Eventuality
3	chase	gerund		things		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
4	not is	present	things		there property	tree rules
5	dream		its = it			nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Nothing at all would change, because cats never move when asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 move	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 move	mark
8	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 move	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 move	advmod
10	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 change	conj
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 asleep	mark
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 move	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not move	present	cats						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It would sleep more quietly and more deeply than it ever had before

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 sleep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sleep	aux
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 quietly	advmod
5	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	3 sleep	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 deeply	cc
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 deeply	advmod
8	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	3 sleep	conj
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 had	advmod
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 deeply	advcl
13	before	before	ADV	_	12 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	would	It					quietly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	it				ever	before property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It would stop dreaming at once and never dream again

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 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	dreaming	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 dreaming	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dream	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 dream	advmod
9	dream	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stop	conj
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 dream	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	stop	would	It		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	dream	gerund			vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	not dream	infinitive		again	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: 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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