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Test 8 · ★ · Kindness to animals

A cat flattens its ears and backs away when a boy reaches for it fast. What should he do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat, boy · What happens: flatten, reach, do · To what, where: ears

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 207 «Kindness to animals» 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 cat flattens its ears and backs away when a boy reaches for it fast.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flattens	nsubj
3	flattens	flatten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ears	nmod:poss
5	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flattens	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 backs	cc
7	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ears	conj
8	away	away	ADV	_	3 flattens	advmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 reaches	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reaches	nsubj
12	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 flattens	advcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 reaches	obl
15	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 reaches	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flattens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flatten	present	a cat	cat's ears and backs				away property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
2	reach	present	a boy					for cat; fast property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: What should he do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	boy						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Reach faster to catch it before it runs off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Reach	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 catch	mark
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Reach	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 catch	obj
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 runs	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 runs	nsubj
8	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 catch	advcl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 runs	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	imperative	you not said here					fast property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	catch	to-infinitive	you not said here	it					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	run off	present	it						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Stop, stay calm and let the cat come to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stay	punct
3	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
4	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 let	cc
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cat	det
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	obj
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	stay	infinitive	you not said here					calm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	let	infinitive	you not said here	the cat					tree rules
4	come	infinitive	the cat not said here		cat				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location

Option 3

Pick it up anyway, to calm it down quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pick	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Pick	compound:prt
4	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 Pick	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 calm	punct
6	to	to	PART	_	7 calm	mark
7	calm	calm	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pick	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 calm	obj
9	down	down	ADP	_	7 calm	compound:prt
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	7 calm	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	imperative	you not said here	it				anyway property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	calm down	to-infinitive	you not said here	it				quickly property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Shout so it knows he is friendly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 knows	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knows	nsubj
4	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Shout	ccomp
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 friendly	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 friendly	cop
7	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knows	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know	present	it						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	he					friendly property	tree rules

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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