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Test 9 · ★ · Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and live in he…

A newborn foal on a farm is standing up on wobbly long legs after an hour. Is that normal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: newborn foal, that · What happens: stand up, be · To what, where: wobbly long legs

This is test 9 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A newborn foal on a farm is standing up on wobbly long legs after an hour.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 foal	det
2	newborn	newborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 foal	amod
3	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 standing	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 farm	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 farm	det
6	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 foal	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 standing	aux
8	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 standing	compound:prt
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 legs	case
11	wobbly	wobbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 legs	amod
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 legs	amod
13	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 standing	obl
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 hour	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hour	det
16	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 legs	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 standing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	present · progressive	a newborn foal on a farm			wobbly long legs after a hour			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=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.

Sentence 2: Is that normal?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 normal	cop
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 normal	nsubj
3	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 normal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					normal property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yes, foals stand and walk within a few hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 stand	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stand	punct
3	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stand	nsubj
4	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 walk	cc
6	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stand	conj
7	within	within	ADP	_	10 hours	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hours	det
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hours	amod
10	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	foals						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	walk	present	foals not said here				hour		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

No, foals cannot stand until they are a year old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 stand	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stand	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stand	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 stand	advmod
6	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 old	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 old	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 old	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 year	det
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 old	obl:unmarked
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stand	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stand	can	foals						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	foals = foal				year	old property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, but only tiny Shetland foals can do that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 do	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 foals	advmod
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 foals	amod
6	Shetland	Shetland	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 foals	compound
7	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 do	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	can	tiny Shetland foals	that					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

Option 4

No, it should lie still in the straw for a month

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 lie	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lie	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lie	aux
5	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	still	still	ADV	_	5 lie	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 straw	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 straw	det
9	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lie	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 month	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 month	det
12	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lie	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	should	it			the straw	still; month		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in straw=Location

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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