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title: A cartoon cat is always sitting in the bath, hating every second. Wh… — The big cats house: lions and tigers u… · tree and pragmatics
description: A cartoon cat is always sitting in the bath, hating every second. Which big cat would actually enjoy the bath? Test 8 of lesson 81 «The big cats house: lions and tigers up close» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 8 · The big cats house: lions and tigers up close

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A cartoon cat is always sitting in the bath, hating every second. Which big cat would actually enjoy the bath?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cartoon cat, big cat · **What happens:** sit, hate, enjoy · **To what, where:** bath

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This is test 8 of lesson 81 «The big cats house: lions and tigers up close» 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/81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon cat is always sitting in the bath, hating every second.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers:t8:1
# text = A cartoon cat is always sitting in the bath, hating every second.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	hating	hate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present · progressive | a cartoon cat |  |  | the bath |  | always *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bath=Location |
| 2 | **hate** | gerund | a cartoon cat *not said here* |  |  |  | second |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which big cat would actually enjoy the bath?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers:t8:2
# text = Which big cat would actually enjoy the bath?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enjoy** | would | which big cat | the bath |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bath=Stimulus |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A snow leopard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers:t8:o1:1
# text = A snow leopard
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	leopard	leopard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A wild lynx

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers:t8:o2:1
# text = A wild lynx
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lynx	lynx	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A cheetah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers:t8:o3:1
# text = A cheetah
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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A tiger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers:t8:o4:1
# text = A tiger
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tiger	tiger	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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