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title: «ugh the cat's sicked up a hairy sausage on my bed» What is it most… — Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes an… · tree and pragmatics
description: «ugh the cat's sicked up a hairy sausage on my bed» What is it most likely? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 197 «Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming

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«ugh the cat's sicked up a hairy sausage on my bed» What is it most likely?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** sic up, be · **To what, where:** hairy sausage, bed, sausage

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 197 «Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming» 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/197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming:t4:1
# text = «ugh the cat's sicked up a hairy sausage on my bed» What is it most likely?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	sicked	sic	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	hairy	hairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
15	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obl:agent	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
18	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	19	advmod	_	_
19	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sic up** *in a quote* | participle |  | a hairy sausage |  | my bed |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | sausage |  |  |  |  | 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 worm it found

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming:t4:o1:1
# text = A worm it found
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | worm | a worm *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Topic |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A hairball of swallowed fur from grooming

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming:t4:o2:1
# text = A hairball of swallowed fur from grooming
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hairball	hairball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	grooming	grooming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A piece of carpet it ate when nobody was watching

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming:t4:o3:1
# text = A piece of carpet it ate when nobody was watching
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | a piece of carpet |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **watch** | past · progressive | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A mouse tail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming:t4:o4:1
# text = A mouse tail
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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