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Test 2 · ★ · Cats and dogs up close

A girl in Brisbane is stroking her cat on her lap when its tail begins to thump on her leg. What will probably happen if she keeps going?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, tail · What happens: stroke, begin, thump, happen, keep, go · To what, where: cat, leg

This is test 2 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A girl in Brisbane is stroking her cat on her lap when its tail begins to thump on her leg.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stroking	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Brisbane	case
4	Brisbane	Brisbane	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stroking	aux
6	stroking	stroke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cat	nmod:poss
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stroking	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 lap	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 lap	nmod:poss
11	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stroking	obl
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 begins	mark
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tail	nmod:poss
14	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 begins	nsubj
15	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stroking	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 thump	mark
17	thump	thump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 begins	xcomp
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 leg	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 leg	nmod:poss
20	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thump	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stroking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stroke	present · progressive	a girl in Brisbane	girl's cat				on girl's lap	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cat=Experiencer on lap=Theme
2	begin	present	lap's tail						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	thump	to-infinitive	lap's tail not said here			girl's leg			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Location

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 will probably happen if she keeps going?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happen	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 happen	advmod
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 keeps	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 keeps	nsubj
7	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
8	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keeps	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	future						probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	present	tail						tree rules
3	go	gerund	tail not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The cat will start to purr more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 start	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 start	aux
4	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 purr	mark
6	purr	purr	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 start	xcomp
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 purr	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	future	the cat						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	purr	to-infinitive	the cat not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The cat may scratch or bite her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scratch	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 scratch	aux
4	scratch	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 bite	cc
6	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 scratch	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	may	the cat						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bite	infinitive	the cat not said here	cat					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 3

Nothing, tail thumping means it is happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 thumping	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thumping	compound
4	thumping	thumping	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 happy	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 happy	cop
8	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Nothing tail thumping						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	thumping					happy property	tree rules

Option 4

The cat will fall asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fall	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	future	the cat					asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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