Test 4 · ★ · Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Wi…

«gonna give my cat a slice of cake for her birthday, she'll love the sugar» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, cat · What happens: give, love, be, slice · To what, where: slice, cat, sugar, cake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 396 «Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker» 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	_	3 give	punct
2	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	3 give	dep
3	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cat	nmod:poss
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 slice	det
7	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 cake	case
9	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slice	nmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 birthday	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 birthday	nmod:poss
12	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 love	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 love	nsubj
15	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 love	aux
16	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 give	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sugar	det
18	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 love	obj
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 love	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 true	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 true	cop
22	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 love	parataxis
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	imperative	you not said here	a slice of cake	my cat	for cat's birthday	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient slice=Theme for birthday=Asset
2	love in a quote	future	cat	the sugar			tree rules
3	is	present				true property	tree rules
4	slice in a quote			cake			nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Cats cannot taste sweet, and rich human food is bad for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 taste	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 taste	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 taste	advmod
4	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 taste	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bad	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bad	cc
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 food	amod
9	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 food	amod
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bad	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 bad	cop
12	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 taste	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not taste	can	Cats					sweet property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	rich human food					for Cats = cat; bad property	tree rules

Option 2

Cake is the best food for cats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 food	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 food	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 food	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 cats	case
7	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 food	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Cake	the best food				for cats	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Cats love sugar even more than meat, so a slice of cake is a treat

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 love	nsubj
2	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 love	obj
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 love	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 meat	case
7	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 more	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 treat	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	16 treat	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 slice	det
11	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 treat	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 cake	case
13	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slice	nmod
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 treat	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 treat	det
16	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 love	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	love	present	Cats	sugar	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sugar=Stimulus
2	is a	present	a slice of cake	a treat	tree rules
3	slice			cake	nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Cats only eat cake on birthdays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 birthdays	case
6	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Cats	cake		birthdays			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient

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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