Test 4 · The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs

What would happen if a horse pulled a plough through a deep flooded rice field instead of a buffalo?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: horse · What happens: happen, pull, flood · To what, where: plough, deep flooded rice field

This is test 4 of lesson 382 «The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 pulled	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pulled	nsubj
7	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 plough	det
9	plough	plough	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pulled	obj
10	through	through	ADP	_	15 field	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 field	det
12	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 field	amod
13	flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 field	amod
14	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 field	compound
15	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pulled	obl
16	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	19 buffalo	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	16 instead	fixed
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 buffalo	det
19	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 field	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pull a condition, not said to happen	past	a horse	a plough	a deep flooded rice field instead a buffalo	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plough=Theme
3	flood	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

Nothing, horses and buffaloes are the same for this job

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 same	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 same	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 buffaloes	cc
5	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 horses	conj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 same	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 same	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 job	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 job	det
11	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 same	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					for this job; same property	tree rules

Option 2

It would glide easily over the top of the mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 glide	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 glide	aux
3	glide	glide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	easily	easily	ADV	_	3 glide	advmod
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 top	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 top	det
7	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glide	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 mud	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mud	det
10	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 top	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glide	would	It			the top of the mud		easily property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over top=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would sink deeper in the mud and tire faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sink	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sink	aux
3	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	deeper	deep	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 sink	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 mud	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mud	det
7	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sink	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tire	cc
9	tire	tire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sink	conj
10	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 tire	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	would	It			the mud		deep property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	tire	present						fast property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It would go faster than the buffalo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 go	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 buffalo	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 buffalo	det
7	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	It					than the buffalo; fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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