Test 7 · ★ · Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and live in he…

What would happen if a lone horse was kept in a field with no other animal for months?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, keep · To what, where: lone horse, field

This is test 7 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 kept	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 horse	det
6	lone	lone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horse	amod
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 kept	aux:pass
9	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 field	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 field	det
12	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 animal	case
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 animal	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 animal	amod
16	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 field	nmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 months	case
18	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 animal	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		a lone horse		a field with no other animal for months			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in field=Location

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

It would start eating meat

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 start	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 start	xcomp
5	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	It						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund		meat					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient

Option 2

It would forget it is a horse

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 forget	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 forget	aux
3	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 horse	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 horse	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forget	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	would	It						tree rules
2	is a	present	it	a horse					tree rules

Option 3

It would be happier than in a herd

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 happier	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happier	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happier	cop
4	happier	happy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	8 herd	case
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 herd	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 herd	det
8	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happier	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					than a herd; happy property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would likely get stressed and unhappy

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	5 stressed	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stressed	aux
3	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 stressed	advmod
4	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 stressed	aux:pass
5	stressed	stress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 unhappy	cc
7	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stressed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stress	would · passive		It				likely property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

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