Test 15 · Understanding cats

cat bit me and now my hand is red and puffy

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat, hand · What happens: bite, be · To what, where: me

This is test 15 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 bit	nsubj
2	bit	bite	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 bit	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 red	cc
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 red	advmod
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 red	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 red	cop
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bit	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 puffy	cc
11	puffy	puffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 red	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	cat	me			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
2	is	present	my hand		now	red property	tree rules
3	be		my hand not said here				tree rules

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

Put butter on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Tell an adult, a cat bite may need a doctor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 need	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bite	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bite	compound
7	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 need	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 need	aux
9	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 doctor	det
11	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	need	may	a cat bite	a doctor					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doctor=Theme

Option 3

Wait a week and see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 week	det
3	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl:unmarked
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 see	cc
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here				week		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	infinitive	you not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Squeeze it to get the bite out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Squeeze	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 get	mark
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Squeeze	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bite	det
6	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	4 get	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	imperative	you not said here	it					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	get out	to-infinitive	you not said here	the bite					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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