Test 6 · ★★ · Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mu…

«horse ate summat bad, it'll just be sick and feel better» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: horse · What happens: eat, be, feel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	_	3 ate	punct
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	summat	summat	ADV	_	3 ate	advmod
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ate	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sick	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sick	nsubj
8	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 sick	aux
9	just	just	ADV	_	11 sick	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 sick	cop
11	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ate	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 feel	cc
13	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sick	conj
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 feel	xcomp
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ate	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	past	horse	bad, summat property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	future	horse	sick property	tree rules
3	feel in a quote	infinitive	horse not said here	good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
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

Horses are sick every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sick	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sick	cop
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sick	obl:unmarked

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

Option 2

Horses are sick through their nose, so the bad food comes straight out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sick	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sick	cop
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 nose	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nose	nmod:poss
6	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sick	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 comes	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 comes	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 food	det
10	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 food	amod
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 comes	nsubj
12	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sick	conj
13	straight	straight	ADV	_	14 out	advmod
14	out	out	ADV	_	12 comes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Horses			Horses's nose		sick property	tree rules
2	come	present	the bad food					out property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Horses cannot be sick, so a bad tummy ache can be very dangerous

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sick	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sick	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 sick	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 sick	cop
5	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dangerous	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	15 dangerous	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ache	det
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ache	amod
10	tummy	tummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ache	compound
11	ache	ache	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dangerous	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 dangerous	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 dangerous	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 dangerous	advmod
15	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sick	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	can	Horses					sick property	tree rules
2	is	can	a bad tummy ache					dangerous property	tree rules

Option 4

Horses do not get tummy aches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	tummy	tummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 aches	compound
6	aches	ache	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	present · do-support	Horses	tummy aches					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ache=Stimulus

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