Test 18 · Understanding cats

someone said a cat scratched a boy's eye out when he rubbed its belly, it's going round school

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: someone, cat, belly · What happens: say, scratch out, rub, go · To what, where: eye, belly, round school · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 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	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scratched	nsubj
5	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eye	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 boy	case
9	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scratched	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	5 scratched	compound:prt
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 rubbed	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rubbed	nsubj
13	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scratched	advcl
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 belly	nmod:poss
15	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rubbed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 going	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 going	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 going	aux
19	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	advcl
20	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 school	amod
21	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 going	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	someone		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	scratch out	past	a cat	a boy's eye	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
3	rub	past	cat	eye's belly	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent belly=Theme
4	go	present · progressive	belly	round school	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location school=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

It is made up, so belly rubs are fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 made	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fine	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 fine	advmod
7	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rubs	compound
8	rubs	rub	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fine	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	cop
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	present · passive		It					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot
2	is	present	belly rubs					fine property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Probably exaggerated, but many cats hate belly rubs, so do not touch the belly

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Probably	probably	ADV	_	2 exaggerated	advmod
2	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 hate	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hate	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 hate	cc
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cats	amod
6	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hate	nsubj
7	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rubs	compound
9	rubs	rub	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hate	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 touch	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 touch	advmod
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 touch	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 touch	advmod
14	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 hate	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 belly	det
16	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	exaggerate	participle	many cats not said here		probably property	tree rules
2	hate	present	many cats	belly rubs		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rub=Stimulus
3	not touch	infinitive · do-support		the belly		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme belly=Co-Theme

Option 3

It is true, so all cats are dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dangerous	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	9 dangerous	advmod
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 cats	det
7	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dangerous	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dangerous	cop
9	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 true	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					true property	tree rules
2	is	present	all cats					dangerous property	tree rules

Option 4

It proves cats only scratch boys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 proves	obj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 scratch	advmod
5	scratch	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 proves	advcl
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scratch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It	cats					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme
2	scratch	present		boys					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=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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