Test 7 · ★★ · Keeping garden wildlife safe
Your cat likes to sniff around the shed where rat poison is kept. What is wise?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: like, sniff, keep, be · To what, where: rat poison
This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 72 «Keeping garden wildlife safe» 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: Your cat likes to sniff around the shed where rat poison is kept.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 likes | nsubj |
| 3 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 sniff | mark |
| 5 | sniff | sniff | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 likes | xcomp |
| 6 | around | around | ADP | _ | 8 shed | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shed | det |
| 8 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sniff | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 kept | advmod |
| 10 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poison | compound |
| 11 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kept | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 kept | aux:pass |
| 13 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 shed | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 likes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | present | Your cat | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sniff not said to happen | to-infinitive | Your cat not said here | around the shed | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around shed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | present · passive | rat poison | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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.
Sentence 2: What is wise?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wise | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wise | cop |
| 3 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wise | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wise property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Keep the cat away and tell an adult the poison is reachable
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 reachable | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keep | obj |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Keep | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tell | cc |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Keep | conj |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 adult | det |
| 8 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tell | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 poison | det |
| 10 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tell | obj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 reachable | cop |
| 12 | reachable | reachable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep away | infinitive | the cat | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | the poison | a adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient poison=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | reachable property | tree rules |
Option 2
Move the poison into the garden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Move | move | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 poison | det |
| 3 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Move | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 garden | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 garden | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Move | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | imperative | you not said here | the poison | the garden | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent poison=Theme into garden=Trajectory |
Option 3
Hide the poison under the cat's bed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 poison | det |
| 3 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hide | obj |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cat | det |
| 6 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bed | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 cat | case |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hide | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | imperative | you not said here | the poison | the cat's bed | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent poison=Patient under bed=Location |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Let the cat sniff, because cats always know what is poison and what is food
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sniff | det |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sniff | compound |
| 4 | sniff | sniff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 know | mark |
| 7 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 know | nsubj |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 know | advmod |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 poison | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 poison | cop |
| 12 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 know | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 food | cc |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 food | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 food | cop |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 poison | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | the cat sniff | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sniff=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | present | cats | always property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | poison and food | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | poison and food | food | tree rules |
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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