Test 3 · ★ · Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and live in he…

«just gonna run up behind the horse and surprise it» What would most likely happen?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: run up, surprise, happen · To what, where: horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 207 «Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and live in herds» 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	_	4 run	punct
2	just	just	ADV	_	4 run	advmod
3	gonna	gonna	ADV	_	4 run	advmod
4	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 run	compound:prt
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 horse	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 surprise	cc
10	surprise	surprise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 run	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 surprise	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 run	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 happen	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 happen	aux
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 likely	advmod
16	likely	likely	ADV	_	17 happen	advmod
17	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 run	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 run	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run up in a quote	imperative	you not said here		behind the horse; gonna property	tree rules
2	surprise in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	horse		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer
3	happen	would			likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Nothing, horses see straight behind them perfectly well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 see	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 them	advmod
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	obl
8	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 perfectly	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	horses					behind them = they; Nothing vocative; perfectly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

It will turn and lick you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lick	cc
5	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turn	conj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 lick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	future	It						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	lick	infinitive		you					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent you=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It cannot see you there and may kick out in fright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	obj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 see	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 kick	cc
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 kick	aux
9	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 see	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 kick	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 fright	case
12	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	It	you		there			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	kick out	may				fright			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It will lie down to let you ride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lie	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lie	aux
3	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 lie	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 let	mark
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lie	advcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lie down	future	It		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	let	to-infinitive		you		tree rules
3	ride	infinitive	you not said here			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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