Test 9 · ★★ · Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog…

«Tom always pulls the cat's tail in the cartoon and the cat's fine» What would a real cat do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tom, real cat · What happens: pull, do · To what, where: tail, cartoon

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 399 «Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog bites and cat scratches» 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 pulls	punct
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pulls	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 pulls	advmod
4	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tail	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 cat	case
8	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulls	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 cartoon	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cartoon	det
11	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulls	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fine	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cat	det
14	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fine	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 cat	case
16	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pulls	conj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 pulls	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 do	obj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 do	aux
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cat	det
21	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cat	amod
22	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 do	nsubj
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pulls	ccomp
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 pulls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull in a quote	present	Tom	the cat's tail		the cartoon		always property	tree rules
2	do	would	a real cat						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Purr happily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Purr	purr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	happily	happily	ADV	_	1 Purr	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Pull Tom's tail back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tail	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Tom	case
4	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pull	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	1 Pull	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	imperative	you not said here	Tom's tail					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Scratch or bite because it is scared or hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scratch	scratch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 bite	cc
3	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Scratch	conj
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 scared	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 scared	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 scared	cop
7	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Scratch	advcl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 hurt	cc
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 scared	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	scratch	imperative	you not said here		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bite	infinitive	you not said here		vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	it	scared property	tree rules
4	hurt	participle			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Laugh about it and run away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Laugh	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 run	cc
5	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	conj
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here					about it	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run away	infinitive	you not said here					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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