Test 3 · Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats"

What would happen if the cat food maker tested 1,000 cats chosen at random, against other foods, and 8 out of 10 still chose it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: food maker · What happens: happen, test, choose · To what, where: 1,000 cats, random, 8

This is test 3 of lesson 176 «Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats"» of the world 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 tested	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 food	compound
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 maker	compound
8	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tested	nsubj
9	tested	test	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
10	1,000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 cats	nummod
11	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tested	obj
12	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 cats	acl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 random	case
14	random	random	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chosen	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 foods	punct
16	against	against	ADP	_	18 foods	case
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 foods	amod
18	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tested	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 chose	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 chose	cc
21	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 chose	obl
22	out	out	ADP	_	24 10	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 10	case
24	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 8	nmod
25	still	still	ADV	_	26 chose	advmod
26	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 chose	obj
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	test a condition, not said to happen	participle	food maker	1,000 cats			against other foods	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme
3	choose	participle		1,000 cats not said here	random			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at random=Asset
4	choose	past		8 out 10		still		vn get-13.5.1 «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

It would prove no more than the 10 cats did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 prove	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 prove	aux
3	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 prove	obj
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 did	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cats	det
8	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 cats	nummod
9	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 more	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	would	It	more					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme
2	do	past	the 10 cats						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It would prove that every cat likes it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 prove	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 prove	aux
3	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 likes	mark
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 likes	nsubj
7	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 prove	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 likes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	would	It						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	like	present	every cat	it					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It would be against the rules for adverts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rules	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 rules	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 rules	cop
4	against	against	ADP	_	6 rules	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rules	det
6	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 adverts	case
8	adverts	advert	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rules	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					against the rules; for adverts	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The claim would be much more believable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 claim	det
2	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 believable	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 believable	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 believable	cop
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 believable	advmod
7	believable	believable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the claim					believable property	tree rules

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