Test 10 · Understanding cats

cat's tail is straight up as she comes over

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tail, cat · What happens: be, come over

This is test 10 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tail	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 cat	case
3	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 up	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 up	cop
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 up	advmod
6	up	up	ADV	_	root	root
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 comes	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 comes	nsubj
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 up	advcl
10	over	over	ADV	_	9 comes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	cat's tail					straight, up property	tree rules
2	come over	present	cat					over property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

She is about to attack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 about	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 about	cop
3	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 attack	mark
5	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 about	xcomp

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She's saying a friendly hello

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saying	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	aux
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hello	det
5	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hello	amod
6	hello	hello	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saying	obj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She is frightened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 frightened	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 frightened	aux:pass
3	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	present · passive		She					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 4

She is hungry and cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hungry	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cross	cc
5	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hungry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					hungry property	tree rules
2	be		She not said here						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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