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Test 2 · Farm animals and horses

A boy holds a carrot between his fingertips for a horse. What could go wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: hold, go · To what, where: carrot, fingertips

This is test 2 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

Sentence 1: A boy holds a carrot between his fingertips for a horse.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holds	nsubj
3	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 carrot	det
5	carrot	carrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holds	obj
6	between	between	ADP	_	8 fingertips	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fingertips	nmod:poss
8	fingertips	fingertip	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carrot	nmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 horse	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 horse	det
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fingertips	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 holds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	a boy	a carrot		boy's fingertips for a horse			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent carrot=Theme between fingertip=Location

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.

Sentence 2: What could go wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 go	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 go	xcomp
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	could						wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Horses never eat carrots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	present	Horses	carrots					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carrot=Patient

Option 2

The carrot will make the horse kick out at the boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 carrot	det
2	carrot	carrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 kick	compound:prt
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 boy	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	future	the carrot	the horse					tree rules
2	kick out	infinitive	the horse not said here					at the boy	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at boy=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The horse might nip his fingers by mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nip	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 nip	aux
4	nip	nip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fingers	nmod:poss
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nip	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 mistake	case
8	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nip	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nip	might	the horse	horse's fingers				by mistake	tree rules

Option 4

The horse cannot see carrots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	the horse	carrots					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer carrot=Stimulus

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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