Test 10 · ★★ · The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel,…
Kipling's Cat «walks by himself». Which real fact matches the story best?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cat, real fact · What happens: walk, match · To what, where: story
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 404 «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab» 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
Sentence 1: Kipling's Cat «walks by himself».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kipling | Kipling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Cat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Kipling | case |
| 3 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walks | nsubj |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 walks | punct |
| 5 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 himself | case |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 walks | obl |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 walks | punct |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk in a quote | present | Kipling's Cat | by Cat | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by himself=Trajectory |
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.
Sentence 2: Which real fact matches the story best?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 matches | obj |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fact | amod |
| 3 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 matches | nsubj |
| 4 | matches | match | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 matches | obj |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 story | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 matches | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | match | present | real fact | the story best | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Cats tamed themselves by hunting mice and stayed independent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tamed | nsubj |
| 2 | tamed | tame | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 tamed | obj |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 hunting | mark |
| 5 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 tamed | advcl |
| 6 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hunting | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stayed | cc |
| 8 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tamed | conj |
| 9 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stayed | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tame | past | Cats | Cats = cat | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hunt | gerund | Cats not said here | mice | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stay | past | Cats not said here | independent property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Cats will only live with people who give them milk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 live | advmod |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | obl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 give | nsubj |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 people | acl:relcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | future | Cats | with people | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with people=Location | ||||
| 2 | give | present | people | milk | Cats = cat | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient milk=Theme |
Option 3
Cats were caught wild and trained like horses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | aux:pass |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 caught | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 trained | cc |
| 6 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 caught | conj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 horses | case |
| 8 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 trained | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · passive | Cats | wild property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | train | participle | like horses | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Cats were the very first animals that people tamed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 animals | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 animals | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 animals | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 first | advmod |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 animals | amod |
| 6 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 tamed | obj |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tamed | nsubj |
| 9 | tamed | tame | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 animals | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Cats | the first animals | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tame | past | people | the first animals | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent that=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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