Test 3 · ★★ · Who eats whom: predators, prey, scavengers and decomposers

«ugh cat brought in another mouse, she's not even hungry» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ugh cat · What happens: bring, not be, be · To what, where: ugh cat

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 47 «Who eats whom: predators, prey, scavengers and decomposers» 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 cat	punct
2	ugh	ugh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cat	amod
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hungry	nsubj
4	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cat	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 mouse	case
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 mouse	det
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hungry	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hungry	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hungry	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 hungry	advmod
12	even	even	ADV	_	13 hungry	advmod
13	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 hungry	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hungry	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 hungry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bring in a quote	participle		ugh cat not said here	in another mouse	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
2	not is in a quote	present	ugh cat		hungry property	tree rules
3	is	present			right property	tree rules

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

Hunting is built into cats, hungry or not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 built	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 built	aux:pass
3	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 cats	case
5	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 built	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hungry	punct
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cats	amod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 not	cc
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 hungry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present · passive		Hunting				into cats	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into cat=Product

Option 2

She is secretly starving, cat food is empty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 starving	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 starving	aux
3	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	4 starving	advmod
4	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 empty	csubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 food	punct
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 food	compound
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 starving	obj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 empty	cop
9	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	present · progressive	She	cat food				secretly property	tree rules
2	is	present	starving					empty property	tree rules

Option 3

She is training to be a dog, like the one next door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 training	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 training	aux
3	training	train	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 dog	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 dog	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 training	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 door	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	13 door	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 door	nsubj
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 door	amod
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 training	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	train	present · progressive	She					like next door	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	to-infinitive		a dog					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She caught it only to make friends with it and play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	obj
4	only	only	ADV	_	2 caught	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 caught	advcl
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 play	cc
11	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	catch	past	She	it		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	make	to-infinitive	She not said here	friends	with it	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product
3	play	infinitive	She not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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