Test 3 · Understanding cats

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 3 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	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	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true 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 · ← Mova's choice

Cats never use their tails to show feelings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 use	advmod
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tails	nmod:poss
5	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 show	mark
7	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 use	advcl
8	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not use	present	Cats	Cats's tails					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
2	show	to-infinitive	Cats not said here	feelings					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent feeling=Recipient

Option 2

A slow blink means a cat is angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 blink	det
2	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 blink	amod
3	blink	blink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 angry	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 angry	cop
8	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	a slow blink						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	a cat					angry property	tree rules

Option 3

Cats purr only when they are happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 purr	nsubj
2	purr	purr	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 happy	advmod
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 happy	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 happy	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 happy	cop
7	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 purr	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	purr	present	Cats						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Cats = cat					happy property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A cat may purr even when it is hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 purr	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 purr	aux
4	purr	purr	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	even	even	ADV	_	9 hurt	advmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 hurt	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hurt	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hurt	aux:pass
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 purr	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	purr	may	a cat						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hurt	present · passive		cat					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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