Test 1 · ★★★ · Thinking like an animal

Charlie's cat leaves a dead mouse on the doormat in Bristol. What is the best way to understand it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat, best way · What happens: leave, be, understand · To what, where: dead mouse, doormat, way

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Thinking like an animal» 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: Charlie's cat leaves a dead mouse on the doormat in Bristol.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Charlie	Charlie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cat	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Charlie	case
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaves	nsubj
4	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mouse	det
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mouse	amod
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaves	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 doormat	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 doormat	det
10	doormat	doormat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaves	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Bristol	case
12	Bristol	Bristol	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 doormat	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 leaves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	Charlie's cat	a dead mouse		the doormat in Bristol			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme on doormat=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 the best way to understand it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 understand	mark
7	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 understand	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best way						tree rules
2	understand	to-infinitive	the best way not said here	way					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The cat is hungry and asking for its dinner to be put out much earlier

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hungry	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	cop
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 asking	cc
6	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 hungry	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 dinner	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dinner	nmod:poss
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asking	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	12 put	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 put	aux:pass
12	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 asking	advcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 put	compound:prt
14	much	much	ADV	_	15 earlier	advmod
15	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 put	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	the cat	hungry property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	the cat not said here	for cat's dinner	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	put out	to-infinitive · passive	the cat not said here	early property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»

Option 2

The cat wants to make him ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wants	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	obj
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	the cat						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	the cat not said here	cat				ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

Option 3

The cat is angry with him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 angry	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 angry	cop
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 angry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the cat					with him = he; angry property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is the cat's natural hunting behaviour, so he should not punish it

The tree, 14 words

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	8 behaviour	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 behaviour	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 behaviour	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 cat	case
6	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 behaviour	amod
7	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 behaviour	compound
8	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 punish	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 punish	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 punish	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 punish	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 punish	advmod
14	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 behaviour	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 punish	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the cat's natural hunting behaviour					tree rules
2	not punish	should	cat	behaviour					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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