Test 6 · ★★★ · Thinking like an animal

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true 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 · ← Mova's choice

Cats bring mice home to poison their owners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bring	nsubj
2	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bring	obj
4	home	home	ADV	_	2 bring	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 poison	mark
6	poison	poison	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bring	advcl
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 owners	nmod:poss
8	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 poison	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	Cats		mice			home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mouse=Destination
2	poison	to-infinitive	Cats not said here	Cats's owners					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owner=Patient

Option 2

Pet cats have lost their hunting instinct after living with people for so long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cats	compound
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lost	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 instinct	nmod:poss
6	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 instinct	compound
7	instinct	instinct	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 living	mark
9	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lost	advcl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 people	case
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 living	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 long	case
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 long	advmod
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 living	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · perfect · passive		Pet cats					tree rules
2	live	gerund						with people	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with people=Location

Option 3

Cats hunt only when they are hungry

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	only	only	ADV	_	7 hungry	advmod
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 hungry	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hungry	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hungry	cop
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hunt	advcl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A full cat may still hunt, because the instinct is separate from hunger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cat	det
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cat	amod
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunt	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hunt	aux
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 hunt	advmod
6	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 separate	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 separate	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 instinct	det
10	instinct	instinct	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 separate	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 separate	cop
12	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hunt	conj
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 hunger	case
14	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 separate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	may	a full cat				still		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the instinct			hunger		separate property	tree rules

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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