Test 2 · Light and shadows
A cartoon cat walks around a dark cellar and sees everything clearly. What is true?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon cat · What happens: walk, see, be · To what, where: dark cellar, everything
This is test 2 of lesson 20 «Light and shadows» of the physics 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 cartoon cat walks around a dark cellar and sees everything clearly.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cat | compound |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walks | nsubj |
| 4 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | around | around | ADP | _ | 8 cellar | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cellar | det |
| 7 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cellar | amod |
| 8 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walks | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sees | cc |
| 10 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 walks | conj |
| 11 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 sees | obj |
| 12 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 10 sees | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | a cartoon cat | a dark cellar | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around cellar=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | see | present | a cartoon cat not said here | everything | clearly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus |
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 true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Cats make light with their eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | nsubj |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 make | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Cats | light | with Cats's eyes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Product |
Option 2
Cats see by the heat of things
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 heat | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heat | det |
| 5 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 see | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 things | case |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heat | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | Cats | by the heat of things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | heat | things | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
Option 3
Cats can see in complete darkness
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 darkness | case |
| 5 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 darkness | amod |
| 6 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | can | Cats | complete darkness | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Cats see in dim light, but in total darkness nobody sees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 light | case |
| 4 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 light | amod |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 see | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sees | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 sees | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 darkness | case |
| 9 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 darkness | amod |
| 10 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sees | obl |
| 11 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 sees | nsubj |
| 12 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 see | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | Cats | dim light | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | see | present | nobody | total darkness | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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