Test 8 · Senses: nose, tongue and skin

My dad cut our cat's whiskers so she looks neat. Is that ok?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, cat, that · What happens: cut, look, be · To what, where: whiskers

This is test 8 of lesson 70 «Senses: nose, tongue and skin» 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: My dad cut our cat's whiskers so she looks neat.

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 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	nsubj
3	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cat	nmod:poss
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whiskers	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 cat	case
7	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cut	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 looks	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 looks	nsubj
10	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	advcl
11	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 looks	xcomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	My dad	our cat's whiskers					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whisker=Product
2	look	present	cat					neat property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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: Is that ok?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ok	cop
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 ok	nsubj
3	ok	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 ok	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					ok property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

No, it makes all her fur fall out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 makes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 fur	det:predet
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 fur	nmod:poss
7	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obj
8	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 makes	xcomp
9	out	out	ADV	_	8 fall	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	it	her fur					tree rules
2	fall out	infinitive	her fur not said here					out property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, whiskers are only there to make a cat look pretty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 whiskers	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 there	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 there	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 there	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 there	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obj
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 make	xcomp
12	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	11 look	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	whiskers		there property	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive	whiskers not said here	a cat		tree rules
3	look	infinitive	a cat not said here		pretty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, she needs whiskers to feel her way and judge gaps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 needs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 needs	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 needs	nsubj
4	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 needs	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 feel	mark
7	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 needs	xcomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 way	nmod:poss
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feel	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 judge	cc
11	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 feel	conj
12	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 judge	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	need	present	she	whiskers	tree rules
2	feel not said to happen	to-infinitive	whiskers not said here	her way	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
3	judge	infinitive	whiskers not said here	gaps	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent gap=Value

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, they help her smell better short

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 help	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 help	nsubj
4	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 help	obj
6	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	xcomp
7	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 smell	advmod
8	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 smell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	they	her = she					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	smell	infinitive	her = she not said here					short, well property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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