Test 1 · ★ · Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo

Which is true about horses and fingers?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 206 «Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo» of the everyday 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 horses	case
5	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fingers	cc
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 horses	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about horses and fingers; true property	tree rules

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 only ever bite on purpose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bite	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 bite	advmod
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 bite	advmod
4	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 purpose	case
6	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	infinitive	Horses			purpose	ever		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on purpose=Location

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

A horse can bite fingers by mistake if food is held in them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bite	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bite	aux
4	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bite	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 mistake	case
7	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bite	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 held	mark
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 held	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 held	aux:pass
11	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bite	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 held	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	can	a horse	fingers				by mistake	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent finger=Patient by mistake=Location
2	hold a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		food				in fingers = finger	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in they=Location

Option 3

Horses never bite anything at all except grass and hay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bite	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 bite	advmod
3	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 bite	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 bite	obl
7	except	except	ADP	_	8 grass	case
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bite	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hay	cc
10	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grass	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bite	present	Horses	anything		all		except grass and hay	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent anything=Patient at all=Location

Option 4

Horses like being fed by strangers without anyone asking first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fed	nsubj:pass
2	like	like	SCONJ	_	4 fed	mark
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 fed	aux:pass
4	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 strangers	case
6	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fed	obl
7	without	without	ADP	_	8 anyone	case
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 fed	obl:agent
9	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 anyone	acl
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 asking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	gerund · passive	anyone	Horses				by strangers	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
2	ask speech: ask	gerund						first property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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