Test 1 · ★ · The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and…
«my cat goes mad for a cardboard box, would a tiger care?» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat · What happens: go, be
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 82 «The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment» 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 cat goes mad for a cardboard box, would a tiger care?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 cat | nmod:poss |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 goes | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 box | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 box | det |
| 8 | cardboard | cardboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 box | compound |
| 9 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mad | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 care | punct |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 care | aux |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 care | det |
| 13 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 care | compound |
| 14 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 box | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present | my cat | mad property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: What is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yes, big cats love boxes, and zoos give them as enrichment
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 love | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 love | punct |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cats | amod |
| 4 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 love | nsubj |
| 5 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 love | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 give | cc |
| 9 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 give | nsubj |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 love | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 enrichment | case |
| 13 | enrichment | enrichment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | big cats | boxes | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer box=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | give | present | zoos | boxes = box | as enrichment | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
Option 2
Tigers eat the box and nothing else
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 box | det |
| 4 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eat | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 nothing | cc |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 box | conj |
| 7 | else | else | ADV | _ | 6 nothing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | Tigers | the box | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Patient |
Option 3
No, only kittens play with boxes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 play | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 kittens | advmod |
| 4 | kittens | kitten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 play | nsubj |
| 5 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 boxes | case |
| 7 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 play | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | kittens | with boxes | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with box=Theme |
Option 4
No, tigers are scared of cardboard because it rustles and smells odd
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 scared | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scared | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 scared | cop |
| 5 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cardboard | case |
| 7 | cardboard | cardboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scared | obl |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 rustles | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rustles | nsubj |
| 10 | rustles | rustle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 scared | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 smells | cc |
| 12 | smells | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 rustles | conj |
| 13 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 smells | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | tigers | of cardboard; scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rustle | present | cardboard | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | smell | present | cardboard not said here | odd property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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