Test 4 · ★★ · A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter f…

«hay, straw, same thing innit» How could you tell them apart?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: hay · What happens: tell · To what, where: them · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 349 «A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding» 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	_	2 hay	punct
2	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 straw	punct
4	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hay	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 innit	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 innit	compound
8	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hay	appos
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
10	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 tell	advmod
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	apart	apart	ADV	_	13 tell	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could	hay and straw		them = they			apart property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Hay is dried grass, greener and sweet-smelling food; straw is golden, dry stalks for bedding

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grass	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grass	cop
3	dried	dried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grass	amod
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 greener	punct
6	greener	green	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grass	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 smelling	cc
8	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 smelling	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 sweet	punct
10	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 greener	conj
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 smelling	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 golden	punct
13	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 golden	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 golden	cop
15	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grass	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stalks	punct
17	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stalks	amod
18	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 golden	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 bedding	case
20	bedding	bedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stalks	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Hay	dried grass		tree rules
2	smell	gerund	Hay not said here	food		vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus
3	is	present	straw		golden property	tree rules

Option 2

They really are exactly the same

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	6 same	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	6 same	advmod
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 same	cop
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 same	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					exactly, same property	tree rules

Option 3

Straw is green and hay is golden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 green	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 green	cop
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 golden	cc
5	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 golden	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 golden	cop
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 green	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Straw					green property	tree rules
2	is	present	hay					golden property	tree rules

Option 4

Hay is only for horses, straw is only for cows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horses	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 horses	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 horses	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 horses	case
5	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cows	punct
7	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cows	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cows	cop
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 cows	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 cows	case
11	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 horses	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Hay					for horses and cows	tree rules
2	is	present	straw					for cows	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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