Test 10 · Horses, zebras and donkeys

Why do people keep a donkey in a field of sheep?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: people · What happens: keep · To what, where: donkey, field

This is test 10 of lesson 25 «Horses, zebras and donkeys» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 keep	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 donkey	det
6	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 field	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 field	det
9	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 sheep	case
11	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 field	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · do-support	people	a donkey		a field of sheep			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent donkey=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

Donkeys keep the sheep warm at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sheep	det
4	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Donkeys	the sheep			night	warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Donkeys chase off foxes and dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chase	nsubj
2	chase	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 chase	compound:prt
4	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chase	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dogs	cc
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 foxes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase off	present	Donkeys	foxes and dogs					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme

Option 3

Donkeys eat the sheep's ticks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sheep	det
4	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ticks	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 sheep	case
6	ticks	tick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Donkeys	the sheep's ticks					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tick=Patient
2	tick		the sheep						nom tick «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Sheep teach donkeys to be calm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 teach	nsubj
2	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 teach	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	6 calm	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 calm	cop
6	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 teach	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	present	Sheep		donkeys				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent donkey=Recipient
2	is	to-infinitive	Sheep not said here					calm property	tree rules

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