Test 18 · ★★★ · Thinking like an animal

they're saying the Browns' cat brought in a dead rabbit cos they don't feed it enough

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, cat, Browns · What happens: say, bring, not feed · To what, where: cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★★★ 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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saying	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	aux
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Browns	det
5	Browns	brown	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cat	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 Browns	case
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brought	nsubj
8	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	ccomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 rabbit	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 rabbit	det
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rabbit	amod
12	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brought	obl
13	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	17 feed	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 feed	nsubj
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 feed	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 feed	advmod
17	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saying	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 feed	obj
19	enough	enough	ADV	_	17 feed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	they			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bring	past	the Browns's cat		in a dead rabbit	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
3	not feed	present · do-support	Browns = brown	cat	enough property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

It must be true, only hungry cats hunt

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	4 true	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 true	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 true	cop
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hunt	punct
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 cats	advmod
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cats	amod
8	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hunt	nsubj
9	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	It					true property	tree rules
2	hunt	present	hungry cats						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It means rabbits like going into houses

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 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 means	obj
4	like	like	SCONJ	_	5 going	mark
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 means	advcl
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 houses	case
7	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It	rabbits					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Topic
2	go	gerund				houses			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Probably wrong; well-fed cats still hunt by instinct and bring their catch home

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Probably	probably	ADV	_	2 wrong	advmod
2	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cats	amod
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 fed	punct
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 fed	advmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
6	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 cats	amod
7	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hunt	nsubj
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 hunt	advmod
9	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 instinct	case
11	instinct	instinct	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hunt	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bring	cc
13	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hunt	conj
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 catch	nmod:poss
15	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bring	obj
16	home	home	ADV	_	13 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	feed	participle				well property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	hunt	present	wrong fed cats		still	by instinct	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by instinct=Location
3	bring	infinitive	wrong fed cats not said here	cats's catch		home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent catch=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It proves the cat is dangerous to people

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 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dangerous	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dangerous	cop
6	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 proves	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 people	case
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dangerous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the cat					to people; dangerous property	tree rules

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