Test 3 · Farm animals and horses

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 3 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

A horse cannot see what is directly behind it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 directly	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 directly	cop
8	directly	directly	ADV	_	5 see	ccomp
9	behind	behind	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	a horse			it			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present						directly property	tree rules

Option 2

A horse can see all the way round, even behind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 way	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj
8	round	round	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 behind	punct
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 behind	advmod
11	behind	behind	ADV	_	4 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	a horse	all way				behind, round property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus

Option 3

Horses always see in front of their nose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 see	advmod
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 front	case
5	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 nose	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nose	nmod:poss
8	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Horses			front of Horses's nose		always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Horses never kick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not kick	present	Horses						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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