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Test 4 · ★ · The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets

Jake: «that parrot needs teaching who's boss». What would most likely happen if he keeps poking it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jake · What happens: need, teach, be, happen, keep, poke · To what, where: boss, parrot

This is test 4 · ★ 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: Jake: «that parrot needs teaching who's boss».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 needs	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 needs	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 needs	punct
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 parrot	det
5	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needs	nsubj
6	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	teaching	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 needs	xcomp
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 boss	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 boss	cop
10	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 teaching	parataxis
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 boss	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 needs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need in a quote	present	Jake						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	teach speech: other not said to happen, in a quote	gerund	Jake not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present		boss					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.

Sentence 2: What would most likely happen if he keeps poking it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 happen	advmod
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 keeps	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 keeps	nsubj
8	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	advcl
9	poking	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keeps	xcomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 poking	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	present	Jake						tree rules
3	poke	gerund	Jake not said here	parrot					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It learns to say «Jake is boss» after a week

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 learns	nsubj
2	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 say	mark
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 learns	xcomp
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 boss	punct
6	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 boss	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 boss	cop
8	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	ccomp
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 boss	punct
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 week	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 week	det
12	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	present	It						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					week		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	Jake	boss					tree rules

Option 2

It becomes his favourite person

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 becomes	nsubj
2	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 person	nmod:poss
4	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 person	amod
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 becomes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	It	his favourite person					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It falls asleep from boredom

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 falls	nsubj
2	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 falls	xcomp
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 boredom	case
5	boredom	boredom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 falls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	It			boredom		asleep property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from boredom=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It bites him harder, and learns nothing

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 bites	nsubj
2	bites	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bites	obj
4	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 bites	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 learns	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 learns	cc
7	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bites	conj
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 learns	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	It	him = he				hard property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	learn	present		nothing					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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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