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title: Why might a cat prefer a pet sitter at home to a cattery? — Lost pets, microchips, holidays and mo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why might a cat prefer a pet sitter at home to a cattery? Test 7 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 7 · Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house

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Why might a cat prefer a pet sitter at home to a cattery?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cat · **What happens:** prefer · **To what, where:** pet sitter, home

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This is test 7 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house:t7:1
# text = Why might a cat prefer a pet sitter at home to a cattery?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	prefer	prefer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	sitter	sitter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cattery	cattery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prefer** | might | a cat | a pet sitter |  | home |  | to a cattery | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sitter=Stimulus |

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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 cannot sleep in a cattery

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house:t7:o1:1
# text = Cats cannot sleep in a cattery
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	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cattery	cattery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sleep** | can | Cats |  |  | a cattery |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in cattery=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sitters let cats go outside on holiday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house:t7:o2:1
# text = Sitters let cats go outside on holiday
1	Sitters	sitter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | present | Sitters | cats |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | cats *not said here* |  |  | holiday |  | outside *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on holiday=Location |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It can stay calm in its own home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house:t7:o3:1
# text = It can stay calm in its own home
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | can | It |  |  | its own home |  | calm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in home=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Catteries never feed cats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house:t7:o4:1
# text = Catteries never feed cats
1	Catteries	cattery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **feed** | present | Catteries |  | cats |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient |

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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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