Test 10 · ★★ · Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed anim…

Why could a farmer with tame cows and goats stay in one village instead of wandering?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: farmer · What happens: stay, wonder · To what, where: one village

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 293 «Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals» 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	10 stay	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 stay	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 farmer	det
4	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stay	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 cows	case
6	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cows	amod
7	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 farmer	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 goats	cc
9	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cows	conj
10	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 village	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 village	nummod
13	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stay	obl
14	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 wandering	mark
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 instead	fixed
16	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 stay	advcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	could	a farmer with tame cows and goats			one village			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location
2	wonder speech: ask	gerund	a farmer with tame cows and goats not said here						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

Cows carried the whole village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 village	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 village	amod
5	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	Cows	the whole village					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Theme

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

Animals gave milk, meat and wool close to home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 meat	punct
5	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 milk	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wool	cc
7	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 milk	conj
8	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gave	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 home	case
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 close	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	Animals	milk and meat and wool				close obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme

Option 3

Wild animals all left the area

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 left	nsubj
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 left	advmod
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 area	det
6	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	Wild animals	the area				all property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Theme

Option 4

Villages had no animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 animals	det
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Villages	no animals					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient

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