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Test 2 · ★★ · "If... then..." and its traps

Kai: "Your cat's not an animal? What is it then, a sofa with a tail?" Which reasoning is Kai laughing at?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kai, cat, reasoning · What happens: not be, be, laugh · To what, where: animal, Kai

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 184 «"If... then..." and its traps» 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

Sentence 1: Kai: "Your cat's not an animal?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 animal	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 animal	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 animal	punct
4	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cat	nmod:poss
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 animal	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 animal	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 animal	advmod
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 animal	det
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 animal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present	Kai	a animal					tree rules

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 it then, a sofa with a tail?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 What	nsubj
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 What	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sofa	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sofa	det
7	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	appos
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 tail	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tail	det
10	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sofa	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	cat				then		tree rules

Sentence 3: Which reasoning is Kai laughing at?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 reasoning	det
2	reasoning	reasoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Kai	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Kai	cop
4	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 Kai	acl
6	at	at	ADP	_	5 laughing	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Kai	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	which reasoning	Kai					tree rules
2	laugh	gerund	Kai not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

"Sofas are furniture, not animals"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 furniture	punct
2	Sofas	sofa	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 furniture	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 furniture	cop
4	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 animals	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 animals	advmod
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 furniture	conj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 furniture	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Sofas	furniture and animals					tree rules

Option 2

"All dogs are animals"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 animals	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 dogs	det
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 animals	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 animals	cop
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 animals	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	all dogs	animals					tree rules

Option 3

"Cats are animals"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 animals	punct
2	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 animals	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 animals	cop
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 animals	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Cats	animals					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

"Not a dog, so not an animal"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dog	punct
2	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 dog	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 animal	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 animal	advmod
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 animal	advmod
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 animal	det
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dog	appos
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 animal	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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