Exam question 2 · Understanding cats

Identify the meaning conveyed by a slow blink on the part of a cat.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, convey · To what, where: meaning

This is exam question 2 of lesson 23 «Understanding cats» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meaning	det
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	conveyed	convey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 meaning	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 blink	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 blink	det
7	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 blink	amod
8	blink	blink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 conveyed	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 part	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 part	det
11	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blink	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 cat	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cat	det
14	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 part	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the meaning					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme
2	convey	participle		the meaning not said here				by a slow blink on the part of a cat	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.

The options

Option 1

That the cat is about to attack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 cat	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 about	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 about	cop
5	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 attack	mark
7	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 about	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that cat					about property	tree rules
2	attack	to-infinitive	that cat not said here						vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

That the cat is very hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 cat	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hungry	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hungry	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 hungry	advmod
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that cat					hungry property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That the cat trusts the person observed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 cat	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trusts	nsubj
4	trusts	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trusts	obj
7	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 person	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	present	that cat	the person					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme
2	observe	participle		the person not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

That the cat suffers from an eye disease

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 cat	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suffers	nsubj
4	suffers	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 disease	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 disease	det
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 disease	compound
8	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suffers	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suffer	present	that cat			a eye disease			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: 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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