Test 6 · ★ · Food chains and food webs

Why can no food chain start with a cat?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: food chain · What happens: start

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 26 «Food chains and food webs» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 start	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 start	aux
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 chain	det
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chain	compound
5	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 start	nsubj
6	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 cat	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 start	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 start	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	can	no food chain					with a cat	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with cat=Subeventuality

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

A cat is too big to be eaten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 big	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 big	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 big	advmod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 eaten	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 eaten	aux:pass
8	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 big	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a cat					big property	tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive · passive	a cat not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»

Option 2

A cat lives in houses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lives	nsubj
3	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 houses	case
5	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	a cat			houses			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location

Option 3

A cat only eats plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eats	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 eats	advmod
4	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	a cat	plants					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient

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

A cat cannot make its own food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 make	advmod
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 food	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 food	amod
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	can	a cat	cat's own food					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Product

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