Test 15 · Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom

cat scratched me deep and it's swollen

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: scratch, be · To what, where: me

This is test 15 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	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scratched	nsubj
2	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 scratched	obj
4	deep	deep	ADV	_	2 scratched	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 swollen	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 swollen	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 swollen	cop
8	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 scratched	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	past	cat	me				deep property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	is	present	cat					swollen property	tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

Scratch the cat back gently so it learns never to do that again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scratch	scratch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Scratch	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	1 Scratch	advmod
5	gently	gently	ADV	_	1 Scratch	advmod
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 learns	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 learns	nsubj
8	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 do	advcl
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 do	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 do	mark
11	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Scratch	parataxis
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 do	obj
13	again	again	ADV	_	11 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	scratch back	imperative	you not said here	the cat		gently property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme
2	learn	present	cat				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not do	to-infinitive		that	again		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

Option 2

Ignore it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	it					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Put a sweet on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sweet	det
3	sweet	sweet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	a sweet		sweet			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme on it=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Wash it and show an adult, cat scratches can get infected

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Wash	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 show	cc
4	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Wash	conj
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 adult	det
6	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 show	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 get	punct
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 scratches	compound
9	scratches	scratch	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 get	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 get	aux
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wash	conj
12	infected	infected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wash	imperative	you not said here	it			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	show	infinitive	you not said here		a adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
3	get	can	cat scratches			infected property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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