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Test 6 · Understanding cats

A cat hides under a bed with big round pupils and flat ears after fireworks. What should you do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat, you · What happens: hide, do · To what, where: bed

This is test 6 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

Sentence 1: A cat hides under a bed with big round pupils and flat ears after fireworks.

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	3 hides	nsubj
3	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 bed	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bed	det
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hides	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 pupils	case
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pupils	amod
9	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pupils	amod
10	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hides	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ears	cc
12	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ears	amod
13	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pupils	conj
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 fireworks	case
15	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hides	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hides	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	a cat			a bed	after fireworks	with big round pupils and flat ears	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bed=Location

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.

Sentence 2: What should you do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	you						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Shine a torch in its eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shine	shine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 torch	det
3	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shine	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 eyes	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eyes	nmod:poss
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Shine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	imperative	you not said here	a torch		torch's eyes			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent torch=Theme

Option 2

Pull it out to cuddle it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pull	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Pull	compound:prt
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cuddle	mark
5	cuddle	cuddle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pull	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cuddle	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull out	imperative	you not said here	it					tree rules
2	cuddle	to-infinitive	you not said here	it					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent

Option 3

Bang on the bed to make it come out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 bed	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bed	det
4	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bang	nmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	xcomp
9	out	out	ADV	_	8 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive	Bang on the bed	bed					tree rules
2	come out	infinitive	bed not said here					out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Leave it alone and let it calm down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Leave	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 let	cc
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	calm	calm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 calm	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	it					tree rules
3	calm down	infinitive							vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: 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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