Test 10 · ★★★ · Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and…

«horse's teeth just wear away to nothing, poor thing» Why does that not usually happen?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: teeth · What happens: wear away, not happen

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 350 «Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres» 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	_	6 wear	punct
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teeth	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 horse	case
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wear	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 wear	advmod
6	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 wear	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 nothing	case
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 wear	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thing	punct
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thing	amod
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nothing	appos
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 thing	punct
14	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	19 happen	advmod
15	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 happen	aux
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 happen	mark
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 happen	advmod
18	usually	usually	ADV	_	19 happen	advmod
19	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wear	advcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 wear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear away in a quote	present	horse's teeth					to nothing; away property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
2	not happen	present · do-support	horse's teeth not said here					usually property	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

Horses do not chew their food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chew	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 chew	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 chew	advmod
4	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 food	nmod:poss
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not chew	present · do-support	Horses	Horses's food					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

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

Horses' teeth keep growing out slowly as they wear down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 teeth	nmod:poss
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Horses	case
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 growing	compound:prt
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 growing	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 wear	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wear	nsubj
10	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	advcl
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 wear	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Horses's teeth		tree rules
2	grow out	gerund	Horses's teeth not said here	slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wear down	present	teeth = tooth	down property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Horses lose all their teeth and grow a whole new set every year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lose	nsubj
2	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 teeth	det:predet
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 teeth	nmod:poss
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lose	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 grow	cc
7	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lose	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 set	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 set	amod
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 set	amod
11	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grow	obj
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 year	det
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grow	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	Horses	Horses's teeth					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Eventuality
2	grow	infinitive	Horses not said here	a whole new set			year		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location set=Theme

Option 4

Horses' teeth are made of metal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 teeth	nmod:poss
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Horses	case
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 metal	case
7	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Horses's teeth				of metal	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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