Test 19 · Understanding cats

Daisy's family have 6 cats and people say her house stinks, is it ok to say

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family, people, house, it · What happens: have, say, stink, be · To what, where: 6 cats · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 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	Daisy	Daisy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 family	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Daisy	case
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 cats	nummod
6	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 say	cc
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	conj
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 house	nmod:poss
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stinks	nsubj
12	stinks	stink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 say	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ok	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 ok	cop
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ok	nsubj
16	ok	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 have	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 say	mark
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 ok	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Daisy's family	6 cats		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient
2	say speech: assert	present	people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stink	present	family's house			vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	it		ok property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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, but only to her best friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 friend	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 friend	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 friend	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 friend	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 friend	nmod:poss
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 friend	amod
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, because six cats proves it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 proves	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 proves	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 proves	mark
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 cats	nummod
5	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 proves	nsubj
6	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 proves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	six cats	it					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Yes, so she cleans up her house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 cleans	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 cleans	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cleans	nsubj
5	cleans	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 cleans	compound:prt
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 house	nmod:poss
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cleans	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean up	present	she	her house					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, it is unkind gossip and may not even be true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 gossip	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gossip	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gossip	cop
5	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gossip	amod
6	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 true	cc
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 true	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 true	advmod
10	even	even	ADV	_	12 true	advmod
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 true	cop
12	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gossip	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	unkind gossip					tree rules
2	not is	may						true property	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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