Test 16 · ★ · Pet care, food and responsibility

our cat ate a lily from the vase and is being sick

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: lily, vase

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 205 «Pet care, food and responsibility» 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	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cat	nmod:poss
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lily	det
5	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 vase	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vase	det
8	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sick	cc
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sick	cop
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sick	cop
12	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ate	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	our cat	a lily		the vase			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lily=Patient
2	is	present	our cat not said here					sick 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

Give her some warm milk and wait till she's better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 milk	det
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 milk	amod
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wait	cc
7	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 better	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 better	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 better	cop
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 wait	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	some warm milk	her = she		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient milk=Theme
2	wait	infinitive	you not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	she			good property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Let her sleep it off in her basket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sleep	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	3 sleep	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 basket	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 basket	nmod:poss
8	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	her = she					tree rules
2	sleep off	infinitive	her = she not said here	it		her basket			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in basket=Location

Option 3

Wait to see if it happens again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 see	mark
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	advcl
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 happens	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 happens	nsubj
6	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 see	ccomp
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 happens	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	happen a condition, not said to happen	present	it	again	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tell an adult and call the vet straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 call	cc
5	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 vet	det
7	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	obj
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	5 call	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	call	infinitive	you not said here	the vet				away property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent vet=Recipient

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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