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Test 7 · Understanding cats

A cat at a friend's house in Belfast hisses at Grace. What should she do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: hiss, do · To what, where: Grace

This is test 7 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 at a friend's house in Belfast hisses at Grace.

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	10 hisses	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	7 house	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 friend	det
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 house	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 friend	case
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cat	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Belfast	case
9	Belfast	Belfast	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 house	nmod
10	hisses	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 Grace	case
12	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 hisses	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 hisses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hiss	present	a cat at a friend's house in Belfast			Grace			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at grace=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 she 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	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 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	cat						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Reach under to stroke it at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	under	under	ADP	_	4 stroke	case
3	to	to	PART	_	4 stroke	mark
4	stroke	stroke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Reach	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stroke	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 stroke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	imperative	you not said here						vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stroke	to-infinitive	you not said here	it					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Step back and leave the cat alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Step	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 leave	cc
4	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Step	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leave	obj
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step back	imperative	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	infinitive	you not said here	the cat				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme

Option 3

Pick it up to show it she is kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pick	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Pick	compound:prt
4	to	to	PART	_	5 show	mark
5	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pick	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 show	obj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kind	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 kind	cop
9	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 show	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	imperative	you not said here	it					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	show	to-infinitive	you not said here	it					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
3	is	present	she					kind property	tree rules

Option 4

Hiss back so it learns who is boss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hiss	hiss	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Hiss	advmod
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 learns	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 learns	nsubj
5	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hiss	advcl
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 boss	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 boss	cop
8	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 learns	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hiss back	imperative	you not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	learn	present	it						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		boss					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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