Exam question 1 · Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo

Identify the correct manner in which a carrot is offered to a horse, the owner having consented.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, owner · What happens: identify, offer, have, consent · To what, where: correct manner, carrot, horse

This is exam question 1 of lesson 206 «Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 manner	det
3	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 manner	amod
4	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 offered	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 carrot	det
8	carrot	carrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 offered	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 offered	aux:pass
10	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 manner	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 horse	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 horse	det
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 offered	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 owner	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 owner	det
16	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 horse	appos
17	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 owner	acl
18	consented	consent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 having	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the correct manner			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent manner=Theme
2	offer	present · passive		a carrot	a horse	the correct manner	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to horse=Goal
3	have	gerund	the owner not said here				tree rules
4	consent	participle	the owner not said here				vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Thrown upon the ground before it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 ground	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ground	det
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Thrown	obl
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Thrown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	participle				the ground	before ground		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent upon ground=Destination

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

Upon a flat open palm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	5 palm	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 palm	det
3	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 palm	amod
4	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 palm	amod
5	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Held in the mouth of the person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 mouth	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mouth	det
4	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Held	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 person	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mouth	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	participle				the mouth of the person			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mouth=Location

Option 4

Held between the fingertips

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	between	between	ADP	_	4 fingertips	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fingertips	det
4	fingertips	fingertip	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Held	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	participle				the fingertips			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between fingertip=Location

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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