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# Test 2 · ★ · Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?

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«my cat's fat and lazy, he won't hunt anything, he's full» What is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fat · **What happens:** not hunt, be · **To what, where:** anything

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 118 «Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice:t2:1
# text = «my cat's fat and lazy, he won't hunt anything, he's full» What is true?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hunt** *in a quote* | future | my cat's fat | anything |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | fat |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A full cat can never hunt again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice:t2:o1:1
# text = A full cat can never hunt again
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hunt** | can | a full cat |  |  |  | again |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Fat cats hunt twice as much as thin ones, because they need more food to stay fat

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice:t2:o2:1
# text = Fat cats hunt twice as much as thin ones, because they need more food to stay fat
1	Fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
18	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | present | Fat cats | much |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present | cats *= cat* | more food |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | more food *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fat *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The hunting urge does not switch off when full, so he may still chase things

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice:t2:o3:1
# text = The hunting urge does not switch off when full, so he may still chase things
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	urge	urge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	switch	switch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
9	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
16	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **switch off** | present · do-support | the hunting urge |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **chase** | may | urge | things |  |  | still |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cats only hunt when the moon is full and the nights are bright enough to see

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice:t2:o4:1
# text = Cats only hunt when the moon is full and the nights are bright enough to see
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
14	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | present | Cats |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the moon |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the nights |  |  |  |  | bright, enough *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | the nights *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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**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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