Test 10 · ★ · The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets

Which of these is most likely to make a shy cat trust you?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, make · To what, where: shy cat trust

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 457 «The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets» 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	6 likely	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 these	case
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	1 Which	nmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 likely	cop
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 likely	advmod
6	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 likely	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 trust	det
10	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 trust	amod
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trust	compound
12	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 make	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 likely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						likely property	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive		a shy cat trust					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset trust=Beneficiary you=Product

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

Following it into every room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Following	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 room	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 room	det
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Following	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund		it		every room			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme into room=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sitting quietly and letting it come to you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	1 Sitting	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 letting	cc
4	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Sitting	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 letting	obj
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 letting	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund			quietly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	let	gerund	it			tree rules
3	come	infinitive		you		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location

Option 3

Holding it so it can't escape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Holding	obj
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 escape	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 escape	nsubj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 escape	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 escape	advmod
7	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Holding	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund		it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	not escape	can	it						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Picking it up and cuddling it as often as you can

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Picking	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 can	csubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Picking	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Picking	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cuddling	cc
5	cuddling	cuddle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Picking	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cuddling	obj
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 often	advmod
8	often	often	ADV	_	5 cuddling	advmod
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Picking	obl
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	gerund		it				as you	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	cuddle	gerund		it				often property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-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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