Test 11 · ★★★ · Thinking about noticing

why's the cat creeping so slow at the bird

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: creep

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 20 «Thinking about noticing» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 creeping	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 creeping	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 creeping	nsubj
5	creeping	creep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 slow	advmod
7	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 creeping	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 bird	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bird	det
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep	present · progressive	the cat					slow property	vn run-51.3.2 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

To keep its soft paws nice and clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 paws	nmod:poss
4	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 paws	amod
5	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obj
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 clean	cc
8	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nice	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		its soft paws				nice property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Theme

Option 2

Because birds cannot hear it at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 hear	mark
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hear	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hear	advmod
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hear	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 hear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	can	birds	it		all			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

Cats are always tired after a long sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tired	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	8 sleep	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sleep	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sleep	amod
8	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tired	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cats				after a long sleep	always, tired property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Slow movement is hard to notice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 movement	amod
2	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hard	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	cop
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 notice	mark
6	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hard	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Slow movement					hard property	tree rules
2	notice	to-infinitive	Slow movement not said here						vn see-30.1-1 «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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