Test 10 · Farm animals and horses

giving the pony a carrot, how

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: give · To what, where: carrot, pony

This is test 10 of lesson 28 «Farm animals and horses» 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	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 how	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pony	det
3	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 giving	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 carrot	det
5	carrot	carrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 giving	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 giving	punct
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	gerund		a carrot	the pony				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent pony=Recipient carrot=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

Throw it at its face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 face	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 face	nmod:poss
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	it		its face			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at face=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

On a flat open hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Pushed into its mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 mouth	case
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mouth	nmod:poss
4	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pushed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	participle				its mouth			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into mouth=Destination

Option 4

Holding the very end in your fingers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 end	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 end	advmod
4	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Holding	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 fingers	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 fingers	nmod:poss
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Holding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund		the end		your fingers			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent end=Theme in finger=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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