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Test 2 · ★ · The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets

Alfie screams «bad cat!» after grabbing her tail. Is the cat bad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alfie, cat · What happens: scream, grab, be · To what, where: bad cat, tail

This is test 2 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Alfie screams «bad cat!» after grabbing her tail.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alfie	Alfie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 screams	nsubj
2	screams	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 cat	punct
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cat	amod
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 screams	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 screams	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 screams	punct
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 grabbing	mark
9	grabbing	grab	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 screams	advcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 tail	nmod:poss
11	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grabbing	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 screams	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	present	Alfie	bad cat					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Topic
2	grab	gerund	Alfie not said here	Alfie's tail					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=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.

Sentence 2: Is the cat bad?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bad	nsubj
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the cat					bad property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, Alfie scratched himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 scratched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Alfie	Alfie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 scratched	nsubj
4	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 scratched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	past	Alfie	Alfie					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme

Option 2

Yes, she should be punished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 punished	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 punished	nsubj:pass
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 punished	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 punished	aux:pass
6	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	should · passive		she					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, she was hurt and said no the only way she can

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 hurt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hurt	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hurt	aux:pass
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hurt	conj
8	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 said	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
10	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 way	amod
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 can	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 way	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	past · passive		she					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, a good cat should never scratch, whatever happens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 scratch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cat	amod
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scratch	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 scratch	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 scratch	advmod
8	scratch	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 happens	punct
10	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 happens	nsubj
11	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 scratch	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not scratch	should	a good cat						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	happen	present	whatever						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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