Test 8 · ★ · The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and…
A cartoon has a cat that whistles and chirps like a bird. Which real cat comes closest?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon, cat, real cat · What happens: have, whistle, chirp, come · To what, where: cat
This is test 8 · ★ 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: A cartoon has a cat that whistles and chirps like a bird.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cat | det |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 whistles | nsubj |
| 7 | whistles | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cat | acl:relcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 chirps | cc |
| 9 | chirps | chirp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 whistles | conj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 bird | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bird | det |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chirps | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a cartoon | a cat | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient | ||||
| 2 | whistle | present | a cat | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | chirp | present | a cat not said here | like a bird | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 real cat comes closest?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 cat | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cat | amod |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | closest | close | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 comes | parataxis |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | which real cat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The puma
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 puma | det |
| 2 | puma | puma | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The African lion
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lion | det |
| 2 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lion | amod |
| 3 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The jaguar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 jaguar | det |
| 2 | jaguar | jaguar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The tiger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tiger | det |
| 2 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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