Test 8 · ★ · Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dun…

«my cat stopped burying her poo in the tray, so what» Why should the owner notice?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: stop, bury · To what, where: poo, tray

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 398 «Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals» 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	_	4 stopped	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cat	nmod:poss
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	burying	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stopped	xcomp
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 poo	nmod:poss
7	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burying	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 tray	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tray	det
10	tray	tray	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burying	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 what	advmod
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 stopped	advcl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
15	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 what	advmod
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 what	acl:relcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 notice	det
18	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 notice	compound
19	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 should	nsubj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop in a quote	past	my cat						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	bury in a quote	gerund	my cat not said here	cat's poo		the tray			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent poo=Theme in tray=Destination

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

It means the litter is far too clean

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 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 litter	det
4	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clean	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 clean	cop
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 clean	advmod
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 clean	advmod
8	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the litter					clean, far property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Cats never bother to bury poo anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bother	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 bother	advmod
3	bother	bother	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 bury	mark
5	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bother	xcomp
6	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bury	obj
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	5 bury	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bother	present	Cats						tree rules
2	not bury	to-infinitive	Cats not said here	poo				anyway property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poo=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The cat may be stressed or unwell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stressed	nsubj:pass
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stressed	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 stressed	aux:pass
5	stressed	stress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 unwell	cc
7	unwell	unwell	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stressed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stress	may · passive		the cat					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

Option 4

It means the cat is very happy at 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	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 happy	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 happy	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 happy	advmod
7	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 home	case
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 happy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the cat			home		happy property	tree rules

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