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Test 1 · Understanding cats

Mittens walks up to Emma in her kitchen in Toronto with her tail straight up. What is Mittens saying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mittens · What happens: walk up, say · To what, where: Emma, kitchen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 23 «Understanding cats» 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: Mittens walks up to Emma in her kitchen in Toronto with her tail straight up.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mittens	mitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walks	nsubj
2	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 walks	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Emma	case
5	Emma	Emma	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 walks	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 kitchen	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 kitchen	nmod:poss
8	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walks	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Toronto	case
10	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 kitchen	nmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 tail	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tail	nmod:poss
13	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walks	obl
14	straight	straight	ADV	_	15 up	advmod
15	up	up	ADV	_	2 walks	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk up	present	Mittens		Emma	Emma's kitchen in Toronto		with Toronto's tail	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to emma=Result

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 is Mittens saying?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 saying	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 saying	aux
3	Mittens	mitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 saying	nsubj
4	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	Mittens						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

I'm scared of you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I					of you; scared property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Hello, I'm glad to see you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hello	hello	INTJ	_	5 glad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hello	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 glad	nsubj
4	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 glad	cop
5	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 glad	xcomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I					glad property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	I not said here	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 3

I'm going to bite you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 going	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 bite	mark
5	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 going	xcomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 bite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	I						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bite	to-infinitive	I not said here	you					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

Option 4

I'm angry, go away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 angry	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 angry	punct
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	parataxis
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I					angry property	tree rules
2	go away	infinitive						away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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