Test 9 · ★★ · Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, g…

«gave the pony a massive bucket of grain, it'll just throw up if it's too much» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bucket · What happens: give, throw up, be · To what, where: massive bucket, pony

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 139 «Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pony	det
4	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bucket	det
6	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bucket	amod
7	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 grain	case
9	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bucket	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 throw	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 throw	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 throw	aux
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 throw	advmod
14	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gave	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 throw	compound:prt
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 much	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 much	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 much	cop
19	too	too	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 throw	obl
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 much	punct
22	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 right	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 right	cop
24	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 much	acl:relcl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	past		a massive bucket of grain	the pony		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent pony=Recipient bucket=Theme
2	throw up in a quote	future	bucket				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	bucket			much property	tree rules
4	is	present				right property	tree rules

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, ponies throw up easily, just like dogs and cats do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 throw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	ponies	pony	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 throw	nsubj
4	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 throw	compound:prt
6	easily	easily	ADV	_	4 throw	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dogs	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 dogs	advmod
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 dogs	case
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 do	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cats	cc
12	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dogs	conj
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 throw	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw up	present	ponies					easily property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	dogs and cats						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, and then eat it again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 eat	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 eat	advmod
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eat	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	it			then; again		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Horses cannot vomit, so a bad meal can make them very ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 vomit	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 vomit	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 vomit	advmod
4	vomit	vomit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	11 make	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 meal	det
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 meal	amod
9	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 make	aux
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 vomit	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 make	obj
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 ill	advmod
14	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not vomit	can	Horses						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	can	a bad meal	Horses = horse				ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

Option 4

No, ponies cannot eat grain at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	ponies	pony	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 eat	advmod
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	can	ponies	grain		all			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Patient

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