Test 11 · ★★ · Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mu…

«two mules, so they'll have baby mules next spring yeah» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two mules · What happens: have, be · To what, where: baby mules · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 208 «Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mules» 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	_	8 have	punct
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 mules	nummod
3	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 have	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
7	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mules	compound
10	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	obj
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 spring	amod
12	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
13	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 have	discourse
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 have	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	future	two mules	baby mules			spring		tree rules
2	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

Mules have babies that are horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 horses	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 horses	cop
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 babies	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Mules	babies					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
2	is a	present	that	horses					tree rules

Option 2

Only white mules can have babies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 mules	advmod
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mules	amod
3	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	can	white mules	babies					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient

Option 3

Yes, mules have twins every year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	mules	twins			year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twin=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Mules almost never have babies of their own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
2	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 own	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 own	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 babies	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	present	Mules	babies of Mules's own				almost property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient

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