Test 10 · Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom

got mum lilies, the cat keeps sniffin them

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: mum lilies, sniffin

This is test 10 of lesson 118 «Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom» of the everyday 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	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lilies	cop
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lilies	compound
3	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 keeps	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lilies	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keeps	nsubj
7	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	sniffin	sniffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keeps	obj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 keeps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		mum lilies					tree rules
2	keep	present	the cat	sniffin					vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent sniffin=Theme they=Attribute

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 · ✓ the right answer

Keep them away, lilies are deadly to cats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Keep	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 deadly	punct
5	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 deadly	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 deadly	cop
7	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	parataxis
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 cats	case
9	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 deadly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep away	imperative	you not said here	them = they				away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	is	present	lilies					to cats; deadly property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Fine, cats don't eat flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cats	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 eat	advmod
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	present · do-support	Fine cats	flowers					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient

Option 3

Only the roots are a problem

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 roots	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 roots	det
3	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 problem	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 problem	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 problem	det
6	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the roots	a problem					tree rules

Option 4

Only dangerous to dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 dangerous	advmod
2	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 dogs	case
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dangerous	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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