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Test 3 · ★ · Cats and dogs up close

A boy in Glasgow is visiting his gran, whose cat has not eaten for two days. What is best?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, cat · What happens: visit, not eat, be · To what, where: gran

This is test 3 · ★ 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 boy in Glasgow is visiting his gran, whose cat has not eaten for two days.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 visiting	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Glasgow	case
4	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 visiting	aux
6	visiting	visit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 gran	nmod:poss
8	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 visiting	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eaten	punct
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 cat	nmod:poss
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eaten	nsubj
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 eaten	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 eaten	advmod
14	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 visiting	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 days	case
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 days	nummod
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 eaten	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 visiting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	present · progressive	a boy in Glasgow	boy's gran					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gran=Co-Agent
2	not eat	present · perfect	cat				day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 is best?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 best	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 best	cop
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 best	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell his gran, because the cat may need a vet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 gran	nmod:poss
3	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 need	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 need	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 need	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 need	aux
9	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 vet	det
11	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	his gran					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gran=Recipient
2	need	may	the cat	a vet					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vet=Theme

Option 2

Wait until the cat gets hungry enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 gets	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	nsubj
5	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gets	xcomp
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 hungry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	present	the cat					hungry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Give the cat some of his sweets

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 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	1 Give	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 sweets	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sweets	nmod:poss
7	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 some	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	some	the cat				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient some=Theme

Option 4

Leave a saucer of milk out to tempt the cat to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 saucer	det
3	saucer	saucer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 milk	case
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saucer	nmod
6	out	out	ADV	_	1 Leave	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 tempt	mark
8	tempt	tempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Leave	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tempt	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 eat	mark
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tempt	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	a saucer of milk				out property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saucer=Theme
2	tempt	to-infinitive	you not said here		the cat				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient
3	eat	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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