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Test 9 · Horses, zebras and donkeys

A horse keeps rolling, sweating and looking at its belly. What should the owner do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: horse, owner · What happens: keep, roll, sweat, look, do

This is test 9 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

Sentence 1: A horse keeps rolling, sweating and looking at its belly.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keeps	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sweating	punct
6	sweating	sweat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 rolling	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 looking	cc
8	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 rolling	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 belly	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 belly	nmod:poss
11	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looking	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	a horse						tree rules
2	roll	gerund	a horse not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sweat	gerund	a horse not said here						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	gerund	a horse not said here					at horse's belly	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at belly=Theme

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: What should the owner do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 owner	det
4	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	the owner						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Leave it, rolling is always for fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fun	punct
4	rolling	rolling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fun	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fun	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 fun	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 fun	case
8	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	present	rolling					for fun; always property	tree rules

Option 2

Give it a big meal straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 meal	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 meal	amod
5	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	1 Give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	a big meal	it			away property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient meal=Theme

Option 3

Gallop it hard to shake it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gallop	gallop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Gallop	obj
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Gallop	xcomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 shake	mark
5	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hard	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shake	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 shake	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gallop	imperative	you not said here	it				hard property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	shake off	to-infinitive	you not said here	it					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Call a vet, it may be colic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 vet	det
3	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Call	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Call	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 colic	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 colic	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 colic	cop
8	colic	colic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Call	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	a vet					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent vet=Recipient
2	is	may	vet					colic property	tree rules

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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