Test 7 · ★★ · Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed anim…

«llama spat at me, they hate people» What is closer to the truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, llama spat · What happens: hate, be · To what, where: people

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 spat	punct
2	llama	llama	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spat	compound
3	spat	spat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 closer	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 spat	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hate	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hate	nsubj
8	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 closer	advcl
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hate	obj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 hate	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 closer	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 closer	cop
13	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 truth	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 truth	det
16	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 closer	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 closer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate in a quote	present	they	people					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
2	is	present	llama spat at me					to the truth; close 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 · ← Mova's choice

They spit only at sheep, which they hate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spit	nsubj
2	spit	spit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 sheep	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 sheep	case
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spit	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hate	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 hate	obj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hate	nsubj
9	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sheep	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spit	present	They	sheep					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme
2	hate	present	sheep	sheep					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus

Option 2

Llamas spit at every single person on sight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Llamas	llama	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spit	nsubj
2	spit	spit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 person	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 person	det
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 person	amod
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spit	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 sight	case
8	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spit	present	Llamas			sight		at every single person	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on sight=Destination

Option 3

Llamas never spit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Llamas	llama	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spit	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 spit	advmod
3	spit	spit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not spit	present	Llamas						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Llamas spit when annoyed, mostly at other llamas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Llamas	llama	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spit	nsubj
2	spit	spit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	4 annoyed	mark
4	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spit	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 llamas	punct
6	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	9 llamas	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 llamas	case
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 llamas	amod
9	llamas	llama	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spit	present	Llamas					at other llamas	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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