Test 15 · Farm animals and horses

cows are running at us and our dog!!

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cows · What happens: run

This is test 15 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	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 running	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 running	aux
3	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 us	case
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 running	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dog	cc
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dog	nmod:poss
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 us	conj
9	!!	!!	PUNCT	_	3 running	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present · progressive	cows					at us	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at we=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

Hide behind the dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	behind	behind	ADP	_	4 dog	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hide	nmod

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

Option 2

Run towards the cows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	towards	towards	ADP	_	4 cows	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cows	det
4	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Run	obl

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

Option 3

Hold the dog tight and stand completely still

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obj
4	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hold	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stand	cc
6	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hold	conj
7	completely	completely	ADV	_	6 stand	advmod
8	still	still	ADV	_	6 stand	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	the dog				tight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
2	stand	present	you not said here				still	completely property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Let go of the dog and get out of the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 dog	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 get	cc
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 field	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 field	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 field	det
11	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	go	infinitive	you not said here		of the dog	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of dog=Initial_Location
3	get out	infinitive	you not said here	the field		tree rules

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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