Test 5 · Understanding cats

Why do many cats scratch when someone rubs their belly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many cats, someone · What happens: do, scratch, rub · To what, where: belly

This is test 5 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 scratch	advcl
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cats	amod
4	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scratch	nsubj
5	scratch	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 rubs	mark
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 rubs	nsubj
8	rubs	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 scratch	advcl
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 belly	nmod:poss
10	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rubs	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 scratch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	present	many cats not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	scratch	present	many cats		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rub	present	someone	cats's belly	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent belly=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

The belly is where cats feel hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 belly	det
2	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 where	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 where	cop
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
5	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 feel	nsubj
6	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 where	advcl:relcl
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the belly					where property	tree rules
2	feel	present	cats					hungry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Cats are ticklish and laugh with their claws instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ticklish	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ticklish	cop
3	ticklish	ticklish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 laugh	cc
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ticklish	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 claws	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 claws	nmod:poss
8	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 laugh	obl
9	instead	instead	ADV	_	5 laugh	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cats					ticklish property	tree rules
2	laugh	present	Cats not said here					with Cats's claws; instead property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The belly is soft and cats like to protect it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 belly	det
2	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soft	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 soft	cop
4	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 like	cc
6	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 like	nsubj
7	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 soft	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 protect	mark
9	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 like	xcomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 protect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the belly		soft property	tree rules
2	like	present	cats			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	protect not said to happen	to-infinitive	cats not said here	belly		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary

Option 4

Cats think the hand is a toy mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hand	det
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mouse	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mouse	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mouse	det
7	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mouse	compound
8	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 think	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Cats						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the hand	a toy mouse					tree rules

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