Test 10 · ★ · How animals hunt

my cat's fed loads but still kills birds. is she just evil or what

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fed loads · What happens: kill, be · To what, where: birds

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 52 «How animals hunt» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cat	nmod:poss
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loads	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 cat	case
4	fed	fed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 loads	amod
5	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 evil	nsubj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 kills	cc
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 kills	advmod
8	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 loads	conj
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 kills	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 loads	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 evil	cop
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 evil	nsubj
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 evil	advmod
14	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 what	cc
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 evil	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	my cat's fed loads not said here	birds			still		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
2	is	present	my cat's fed loads					evil 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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, she is hunting out of anger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 hunting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hunting	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hunting	aux
5	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	8 anger	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 anger	case
8	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hunting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt out	present · progressive	she	anger					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anger=Theme

Option 2

She's hungry, you're just not feeding her enough proper food

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 hungry	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 feeding	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 feeding	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 feeding	aux
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 feeding	advmod
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 feeding	advmod
9	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hungry	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 feeding	obj
11	enough	enough	ADV	_	9 feeding	advmod
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 food	amod
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feeding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					hungry property	tree rules
2	not feed	present · progressive	you	proper food	her = she			enough property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient food=Theme

Option 3

She's taking the birds back to her mother

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 taking	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 taking	aux
3	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 birds	det
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 taking	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	3 taking	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 mother	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take back	present · progressive	She	the birds	her mother				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bird=Theme to mother=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, the urge to chase and pounce is built in, even when full

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	10 built	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 urge	det
4	urge	urge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 built	nsubj:pass
5	to	to	PART	_	6 chase	mark
6	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 urge	acl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pounce	cc
8	pounce	pounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 chase	conj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 built	aux:pass
10	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	10 built	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 full	punct
13	even	even	ADV	_	15 full	advmod
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 full	mark
15	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 built	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	chase	to-infinitive	the urge not said here	vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	pounce	infinitive		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	build in	present · passive	the urge	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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