Test 7 · Being gentle with small animals
Your cat is hiding under the bed after a thunderstorm. What is kind?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat · What happens: hide, be · To what, where: bed
This is test 7 of lesson 288 «Being gentle with small animals» 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: Your cat is hiding under the bed after a thunderstorm.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hiding | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hiding | aux |
| 4 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bed | det |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hiding | obl |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 thunderstorm | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 thunderstorm | det |
| 10 | thunderstorm | thunderstorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hiding | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hiding | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present · progressive | Your cat | the bed | after a thunderstorm | 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 is kind?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 kind | cop |
| 3 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 kind | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | kind property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Let it hide and come out when it feels safe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 come | cc |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 feels | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 feels | nsubj |
| 9 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | advcl |
| 10 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feels | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | it | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hide | infinitive | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | come out | infinitive | you not said here | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | feel | present | it | safe property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
Shout so it knows the storm is over
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 knows | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 knows | nsubj |
| 4 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Shout | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 storm | det |
| 6 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 over | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 over | cop |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 4 knows | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | imperative | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | know | present | it | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the storm | over property | tree rules |
Option 3
Pull it out by its legs
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 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 legs | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 legs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pull | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out | imperative | you not said here | it | by its legs | tree rules |
Option 4
Poke it with a broom to make it come out from under there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Poke | poke | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Poke | obj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 broom | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 broom | det |
| 5 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Poke | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Poke | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 make | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 there | case |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 there | case |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 come | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | poke | imperative | you not said here | it | with a broom | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with broom=Instrument | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | you not said here | broom | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come out | infinitive | broom not said here | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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