Test 13 · Farm animals and horses

field's full of cows with babies, short cut through?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: cut

This is test 13 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	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cows	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 field	case
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cows	amod
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 cows	case
5	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 babies	case
7	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cows	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 short	punct
9	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cows	conj
10	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 short	acl
11	through	through	ADP	_	10 cut	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

Walk close to look at the calves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Walk	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 look	mark
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Walk	advcl
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 calves	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 calves	det
7	calves	calf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here					close property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	to-infinitive	you not said here					at the calves	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at calf=Theme

Option 2

Throw sticks so they move

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Throw	obj
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	5 move	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 move	nsubj
5	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Throw	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	sticks					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
2	move	present	sticks = stick						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Run through the middle fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	through	through	ADP	_	4 middle	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 middle	det
4	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Run	obl
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here			the middle		fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through middle=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Go round another way if you can

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	round	round	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl:unmarked
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 can	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 can	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go round	imperative	you not said here	another way				round property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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