Test 19 · ★ · Cats and dogs up close

the Browns' cat fell off their balcony and people say they don't care about it, pass it on

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat, people · What happens: fall off, say, not care, pass on · To what, where: balcony, cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ of lesson 61 «Cats and dogs up close» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Browns	det
2	Browns	brown	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cat	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 Browns	case
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 balcony	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 balcony	nmod:poss
8	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 say	cc
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 say	nsubj
11	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	conj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 care	nsubj
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 care	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 care	advmod
15	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 say	ccomp
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 care	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pass	punct
19	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 care	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pass	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	19 pass	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fall off	past	the Browns's cat	Browns's balcony		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient balcony=Extent
2	say speech: assert	present	people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not care	present · do-support	people		about cat	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus
4	pass on	infinitive	people not said here	cat		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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.

The options

Option 1

Pass it on, since the fall proves it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pass	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Pass	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 proves	punct
5	since	since	SCONJ	_	8 proves	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fall	det
7	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 proves	nsubj
8	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pass	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 proves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass on	imperative	you not said here	it					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	prove	present	the fall	it					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Pass it on, and say it fell twice and they just laughed about it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pass	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Pass	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 say	cc
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pass	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
9	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 fell	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 laughed	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laughed	nsubj
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 laughed	advmod
13	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fell	conj
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pass on	imperative	you not said here	it		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fall	past	it		twice property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	laugh	past	they		about it	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Do not pass it on; you do not know them, and the lesson is to keep balconies safe

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 pass	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 pass	advmod
3	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pass	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	3 pass	compound:prt
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 know	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 know	advmod
10	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pass	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 know	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 keep	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 keep	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lesson	det
15	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 keep	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 keep	cop
17	to	to	PART	_	18 keep	mark
18	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pass	conj
19	balconies	balcony	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 keep	obj
20	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not pass on	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	not know	present · do-support	you	them = they		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	is	present	the lesson		keep, safe property	tree rules

Option 4

Pass it on, so they get another cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pass	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Pass	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pass	parataxis
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass on	imperative	you not said here	it					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	get	present	they	another cat					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus

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