Test 4 · The pet that loves you most
«my cat brought me a dead bird, i'm gonna ground her». Better idea?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat, i · What happens: bring, be · To what, where: dead bird, me, gonna ground
This is test 4 of lesson 460 «The pet that loves you most» 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: «my cat brought me a dead bird, i'm gonna ground her».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 cat | nmod:poss |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bird | amod |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ground | punct |
| 10 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 ground | nsubj |
| 11 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 ground | cop |
| 12 | gonna | gonna | X | _ | 13 ground | compound |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ground | obj |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | past | my cat | a dead bird | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination bird=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | i | gonna ground | 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: Better idea?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 idea | amod |
| 2 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 idea | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Lock her in a cupboard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lock | lock | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Lock | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 cupboard | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cupboard | det |
| 5 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lock | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | imperative | you not said here | her = she | a cupboard | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Make her eat it in front of you so she learns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Make | obj |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Make | xcomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 eat | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 front | case |
| 6 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eat | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 front | nmod |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 learns | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 learns | nsubj |
| 11 | learns | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Make | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | infinitive | her = she not said here | it | front of you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | learn | present | she | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Give the bird back to her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Give | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give back | imperative | you not said here | the bird | bird | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bird=Theme to she=Recipient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Don't punish her, an adult clears it up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 punish | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 punish | advmod |
| 3 | punish | punish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 punish | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 clears | punct |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 adult | det |
| 7 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clears | nsubj |
| 8 | clears | clear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 punish | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 clears | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 clears | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not punish | imperative · do-support | you not said here | her = she | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 2 | clear up | present | a adult | it | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent it=Source |
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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