--- title: Daisy's family have 6 cats and people say her house stinks, is it ok… — Understanding cats · tree and pragmatics description: Daisy's family have 6 cats and people say her house stinks, is it ok to say Test 19 of lesson 23 «Understanding cats» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/23-understanding-cats/t19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Understanding cats](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/23-understanding-cats/) / t19 # Test 19 · Understanding cats Daisy's family have 6 cats and people say her house stinks, is it ok to say **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** family, people, house, it · **What happens:** have, say, stink, be · **To what, where:** 6 cats · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 19 of lesson 23 «Understanding cats» of the everyday 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/everyday/23-understanding-cats/#t19). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:23-understanding-cats:t19:1 # text = Daisy's family have 6 cats and people say her house stinks, is it ok to say 1 Daisy Daisy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 stinks stink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 ok ok ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Daisy's family | 6 cats | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **stink** | present | family's house | | | | | | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | it | | | | | ok *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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} Yes, but only to her best friend ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:23-understanding-cats:t19:o1:1 # text = Yes, but only to her best friend 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 8 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Yes, because six cats proves it ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:23-understanding-cats:t19:o2:1 # text = Yes, because six cats proves it 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 because because SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 proves prove VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **prove** | present | six cats | it | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Yes, so she cleans up her house ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:23-understanding-cats:t19:o3:1 # text = Yes, so she cleans up her house 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 cleans clean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **clean up** | present | she | her house | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=Patient | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} No, it is unkind gossip and may not even be true ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:23-understanding-cats:t19:o4:1 # text = No, it is unkind gossip and may not even be true 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 gossip gossip NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 8 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 10 even even ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 cop _ _ 12 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | it | unkind gossip | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **is** | may | | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | **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. 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