Test 11 · ★★★ · Thinking like an animal

cat brought a mouse home, she's not even hungry

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat · What happens: bring, not be · To what, where: mouse

This is test 11 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mouse	det
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obj
5	home	home	ADV	_	2 brought	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hungry	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hungry	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hungry	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 hungry	advmod
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 hungry	advmod
11	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 brought	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	cat		a mouse			home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mouse=Destination
2	not is	present	cat					hungry property	tree rules

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

She wants us to cook it for her dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wants	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cook	mark
5	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cook	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 dinner	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dinner	nmod:poss
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cook	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	She	us					tree rules
2	cook not said to happen	to-infinitive	us not said here	it				for her dinner	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for dinner=Beneficiary

Option 2

She only does it when she's starving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 does	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 does	advmod
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 does	obj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 starving	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 starving	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 starving	aux
8	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 does	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	She	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	starve	present · progressive	she						tree rules

Option 3

She's sick and trying to tell us something

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sick	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sick	cop
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 trying	cc
5	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sick	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 trying	xcomp
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	She			sick property	tree rules
2	try	gerund	She not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	something	us		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient something=Topic

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

Cats hunt by instinct even when fed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunt	nsubj
2	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 instinct	case
4	instinct	instinct	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hunt	obl
5	even	even	ADV	_	7 fed	advmod
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 fed	mark
7	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hunt	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	Cats					by instinct	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by instinct=Location
2	feed	participle	Cats not said here						vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: 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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