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title: Why might a scared cat not come when you call its name? — Lost pets, microchips, holidays and mo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why might a scared cat not come when you call its name? Test 4 of lesson 332 «Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house» 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 right.
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# Test 4 · Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house

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Why might a scared cat not come when you call its name?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** scared cat, you, cat · **What happens:** not come, call, name · **To what, where:** name · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 of lesson 332 «Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house» 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/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house:t4:1
# text = Why might a scared cat not come when you call its name?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **come** | might | a scared cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | present | you | cat's name |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient |
| 3 | **name** |  | cat |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 {#o1}

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Cats forget their names in two days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house:t4:o1:1
# text = Cats forget their names in two days
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	forget	forget	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | present | Cats | Cats's names |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **name** |  | Cats *= cat* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cats cannot hear quiet human voices

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house:t4:o2:1
# text = Cats cannot hear quiet human voices
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hear** | can | Cats | quiet human voices |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Cats will only ever answer to whistles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house:t4:o3:1
# text = Cats will only ever answer to whistles
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	whistles	whistle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | future | Cats |  |  |  | ever | to whistles | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to whistle=Co-Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Scared cats tend to hide silently

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house:t4:o4:1
# text = Scared cats tend to hide silently
1	Scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tend	tend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tend** | present | Scared cats |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | to-infinitive | Scared cats *not said here* |  |  |  |  | silently *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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