Test 9 · ★★ · A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter f…

«left the gate open, who cares, it's just a field» What could happen?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: gate, field · What happens: leave, care, be, happen · To what, where: gate, field

This is test 9 · ★★ 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 left	punct
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gate	det
4	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obj
5	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 left	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cares	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 cares	nsubj
8	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 open	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 field	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 field	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 field	cop
12	just	just	ADV	_	14 field	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 field	det
14	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 field	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 happen	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 happen	aux
18	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 field	acl:relcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 left	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave in a quote	past		the gate	open property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Theme
2	care in a quote	present				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a in a quote	present	gate	a field		tree rules
4	happen	could	a field			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

The gate would rust shut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gate	det
2	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rust	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rust	aux
4	rust	rust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rust	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rust	would	the gate					shut property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

The field would grow faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 field	det
2	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the field					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, because farm animals never wander far from where they are kept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 kept	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wander	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 wander	mark
4	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 animals	compound
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wander	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 wander	advmod
7	wander	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	acl:relcl
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 wander	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 where	case
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 far	obl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 where	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 kept	aux:pass
13	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wander	present	farm animals					far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	present · passive		Nothing					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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

The animals could get out onto the road or into the wrong field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
6	onto	onto	ADP	_	8 road	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 road	det
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 field	cc
10	into	into	ADP	_	13 field	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 field	det
12	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 field	amod
13	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 road	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get out	could	the animals			the road or the wrong field		out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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