Test 3 · The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth

«just put 'em on concrete, way easier to hose down» What would happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: put, hose down, happen · To what, where: 'em, concrete · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 83 «The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth» 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 put	punct
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 put	advmod
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 concrete	case
6	concrete	concrete	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 way	punct
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
9	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 put	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 hose	mark
11	hose	hose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 happen	advcl
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 hose	compound:prt
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 hose	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 happen	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 happen	aux
16	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 easier	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put in a quote	imperative	you not said here	'em = they	concrete	way obl	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on concrete=Destination
2	hose down in a quote	to-infinitive					vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	happen	would					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 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, elephants' feet are as hard as iron and never hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 elephants	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 feet	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 elephants	case
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hard	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hard	cop
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 hard	advmod
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 iron	case
10	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hard	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hurt	cc
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 hurt	advmod
13	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hard	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing elephants's feet					as iron; hard property	tree rules
2	not hurt	infinitive	Nothing elephants's feet not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Their feet and joints would get sore over the years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 feet	nmod:poss
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 joints	cc
4	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feet	conj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 years	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 years	det
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Their feet and joints				year	sore property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

They would walk faster and be happier

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	3 walk	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 walk	aux
3	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 walk	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 happier	cc
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 happier	cop
7	happier	happy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 walk	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	would	They					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	infinitive	They not said here					happy property	tree rules

Option 4

Their toenails would fall off at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 toenails	nmod:poss
2	toenails	toenail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fall	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 fall	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	would	Their toenails						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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