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title: «Garfield's lazy, all cats are lazy, sleep all day» What is right? — Cats through history: Egypt's sacred c… · tree and pragmatics
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# Test 9 · ★★★ · Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and T…

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«Garfield's lazy, all cats are lazy, sleep all day» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** lazy cats · **What happens:** be

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This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 294 «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry» 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/294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry:t9:1
# text = «Garfield's lazy, all cats are lazy, sleep all day» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Garfield	Garfield	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
15	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Garfield's lazy cats |  |  |  | day | lazy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Cats sleep a lot to save energy for short bursts of hunting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry:t9:o1:1
# text = Cats sleep a lot to save energy for short bursts of hunting
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bursts	burst	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | present | Cats | a lot |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme |
| 2 | **save** | to-infinitive | Cats *not said here* | energy |  |  |  | for short bursts of hunting | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent energy=Theme for burst=Source |
| 3 | **burst** |  |  | hunting |  |  |  |  | nom burst «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only cartoon cats sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry:t9:o2:1
# text = Only cartoon cats sleep
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | present | cartoon cats |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Cats are lazy because they are ill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry:t9:o3:1
# text = Cats are lazy because they are ill
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Cats |  |  |  |  | lazy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Cats *= cat* |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cats sleep because they are sad and lonely without people around

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry:t9:o4:1
# text = Cats sleep because they are sad and lonely without people around
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
11	around	around	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | present | Cats |  |  |  |  | without people; around *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Cats *= cat* |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Cats *= cat* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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