Test 16 · Understanding cats

Ruby says cats only scratch when they're mean. right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ruby, cats · What happens: say, scratch, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 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	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scratch	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 scratch	advmod
5	scratch	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 mean	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 mean	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mean	cop
9	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 scratch	advcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	2 says	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ruby		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	scratch	present	cats		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	cats = cat	mean property	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

Yes, only street cats scratch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 scratch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 street	advmod
4	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cats	compound
5	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 scratch	nsubj
6	scratch	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	present	street cats						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, cats scratch when scared, hurt or handled too much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 scratch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scratch	nsubj
4	scratch	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 scared	mark
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scratch	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hurt	punct
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 scratch	conj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 handled	cc
10	handled	handle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 hurt	conj
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 handled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	scratch	present	cats		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hurt	participle	cats not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	handle	participle	cats not said here	much	vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme

Option 3

Yes, unless they are kittens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 kittens	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	6 kittens	case
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kittens	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kittens	cop
6	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					unless kittens	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, nice cats never scratch anyone, only mean ones do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 nice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cats	amod
4	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 scratch	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 scratch	advmod
6	scratch	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 scratch	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 ones	advmod
10	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ones	amod
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 scratch	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not scratch	present	nice cats	anyone					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme
2	do	present	mean ones						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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