Test 8 · Understanding cats

Which sign tells you a cat feels safe with you?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: sign, cat · What happens: tell, feel · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 sign	det
2	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tells	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feels	nsubj
7	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tells	ccomp
8	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feels	xcomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 safe	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	which sign		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	feel	present	a cat					safe property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

Its tail is puffed up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 tail	nmod:poss
2	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 puffed	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 puffed	aux:pass
4	puffed	puff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 puffed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	puff up	present · passive		Its tail					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source

Option 2

Its ears are flat back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 ears	nmod:poss
2	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flat	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 flat	cop
4	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 flat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Its ears					flat property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It blinks slowly while looking at you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blinks	nsubj
2	blinks	blink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 blinks	advmod
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 looking	mark
5	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 blinks	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blink	present	It					slowly property	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	gerund						at you	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=Theme

Option 4

It hisses when you come close to it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hisses	nsubj
2	hisses	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 come	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hisses	ccomp
6	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 come	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hiss	present	It						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	present	you			it		close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location

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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