Test 8 · ★★ · Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mu…

What would happen if a rider never picked the stones out of a horse's hooves?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, not pick · To what, where: rider, hooves

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	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	_	8 picked	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rider	det
6	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 picked	obl:unmarked
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 picked	advmod
8	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stones	det
10	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 picked	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	16 hooves	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 hooves	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 horse	det
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hooves	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 horse	case
16	hooves	hoove	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 picked	obl
17	?	?	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	not pick a condition, not said to happen	past		a rider		a horse's hooves			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient

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

The hooves would stop growing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hooves	det
2	hooves	hoove	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the hooves						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	grow	gerund	the hooves not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nothing at all, because the stones help to keep the hooves hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 help	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 help	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stones	det
7	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 help	nsubj
8	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 keep	mark
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 help	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hooves	det
12	hooves	hoove	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 keep	obj
13	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	the stones						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	keep	to-infinitive	the stones not said here	the hooves				hard property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoove=Theme

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

A stone near the frog could make the horse lame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	nsubj
3	near	near	ADP	_	5 frog	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 frog	det
5	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stone	nmod
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 make	aux
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lame	det
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lame	compound
10	lame	lame	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	could	a stone near the frog	the horse lame					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lame=Product

Option 4

The horse would learn to fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fly	mark
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 learn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	the horse						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fly	to-infinitive	the horse not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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