Test 13 · Understanding cats

cat scratched me, bit of blood

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: scratch · To what, where: me

This is test 13 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	2 scratched	nsubj
2	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 scratched	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bit	punct
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scratched	obl:unmarked
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 blood	case
7	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	past	cat	me				bit of blood obl:unmarked	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 · ← Mova's choice

Leave it, scratches never matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Leave	punct
4	scratches	scratch	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Leave	obj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 matter	advmod
6	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it					vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme scratch=Attribute
2	not matter	present	you not said here						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Wash it with soap and water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Wash	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 soap	case
4	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wash	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 water	cc
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soap	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	imperative	you not said here	it				with soap and water	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with soap=Instrument

Option 3

Lick it clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lick	lick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Lick	obj
3	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Lick	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lick	imperative	you not said here	it				clean property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Put a plaster on dirty skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 plaster	det
3	plaster	plaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 skin	case
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 skin	amod
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	a plaster		dirty skin			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent plaster=Theme on skin=Destination

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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