Test 9 · ★★ · Wild animals: keep away, never feed

Why is it wrong to walk between a mother moose and her calf?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, walk · To what, where: mother moose

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 26 «Wild animals: keep away, never feed» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 wrong	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wrong	nsubj
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 walk	mark
6	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wrong	advcl
7	between	between	ADP	_	10 moose	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 moose	det
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 moose	compound
10	moose	moose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walk	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 calf	cc
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 calf	nmod:poss
13	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 moose	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					wrong property	tree rules
2	walk	to-infinitive				a mother moose and her calf			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between moose=Trajectory

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

Moose are scared of children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moose	moose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 children	case
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Moose					of children; scared property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The mother will defend her calf and may charge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 defend	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 defend	aux
4	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 calf	nmod:poss
6	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 defend	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 charge	cc
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 charge	aux
9	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 defend	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	defend	future	the mother		mother's calf				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Beneficiary
2	charge	may	the mother not said here						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The calf will follow you home and lose its mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 calf	det
2	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 follow	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 follow	aux
4	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 follow	obj
6	home	home	ADV	_	4 follow	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lose	cc
8	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 follow	conj
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mother	nmod:poss
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	future	the calf	you				home property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	lose	infinitive	the calf not said here	calf's mother					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Eventuality

Option 4

The mother will lose her way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lose	aux
4	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lose	obj
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	future	the mother	her = she				way obl:unmarked	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality

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