Test 8 · The big cats house: lions and tigers up close
A cartoon cat is always sitting in the bath, hating every second. Which big cat would actually enjoy the bath?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon cat, big cat · What happens: sit, hate, enjoy · To what, where: bath
This is test 8 of lesson 81 «The big cats house: lions and tigers up close» 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: A cartoon cat is always sitting in the bath, hating every second.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cat | compound |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sitting | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sitting | aux |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 sitting | advmod |
| 6 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 bath | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bath | det |
| 9 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sitting | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hating | punct |
| 11 | hating | hate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sitting | conj |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 second | det |
| 13 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hating | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sitting | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present · progressive | a cartoon cat | the bath | always property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bath=Location | |||
| 2 | hate | gerund | a cartoon cat not said here | second | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
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 big cat would actually enjoy the bath?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 cat | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cat | amod |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enjoy | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 enjoy | aux |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 6 enjoy | advmod |
| 6 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bath | det |
| 8 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enjoy | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 enjoy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoy | would | which big cat | the bath | actually property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bath=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1
A snow leopard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 leopard | det |
| 2 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leopard | compound |
| 3 | leopard | leopard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A wild lynx
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lynx | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lynx | amod |
| 3 | lynx | lynx | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A cheetah
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cheetah | det |
| 2 | cheetah | cheetah | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A tiger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tiger | det |
| 2 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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