Test 9 · ★ · Pet care, food and responsibility
A friend never lets her kitten catch the feather toy. The kitten starts biting her hand. Why?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend, kitten · What happens: not let, catch, start, bite · To what, where: kitten, feather toy, hand
This is test 9 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A friend never lets her kitten catch the feather toy.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 friend | det |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lets | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 lets | advmod |
| 4 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 kitten | nmod:poss |
| 6 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lets | obj |
| 7 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lets | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 toy | det |
| 9 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 toy | compound |
| 10 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 catch | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let | present | a friend | friend's kitten | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | present | friend's kitten not said here | the feather toy | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=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.
Sentence 2: The kitten starts biting her hand.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kitten | det |
| 2 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 starts | nsubj |
| 3 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | biting | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 starts | xcomp |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 biting | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 starts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | the kitten | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | bite | gerund | the kitten not said here | kitten's hand | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
Sentence 3: Why?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Play that never ends in a catch frustrates and stresses it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 frustrates | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 ends | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 ends | advmod |
| 4 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Play | acl:relcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 catch | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 catch | det |
| 7 | catch | catch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ends | obl |
| 8 | frustrates | frustrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stresses | cc |
| 10 | stresses | stress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 frustrates | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stresses | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not end | present | Play | a catch | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | frustrate | present | Play | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | stress | present | Play not said here | Play | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination |
Option 2
The kitten is naturally evil
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kitten | det |
| 2 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 evil | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 evil | cop |
| 4 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 5 evil | advmod |
| 5 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the kitten | evil, naturally property | tree rules |
Option 3
The kitten wants to be left in its cage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kitten | det |
| 2 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 left | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 left | aux:pass |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wants | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cage | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 cage | nmod:poss |
| 9 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | the kitten | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the kitten not said here | in kitten's cage result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: in cage=Result |
Option 4
Kittens hate feathers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kittens | kitten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hate | nsubj |
| 2 | hate | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hate | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | present | Kittens | feathers | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feather=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/t9/