Test 5 · Farm animals and horses
Jacob leaves the gate open after crossing a sheep field. What could happen?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jacob · What happens: leave, cross, happen · To what, where: gate, sheep field
This is test 5 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: Jacob leaves the gate open after crossing a sheep field.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 leaves | nsubj |
| 2 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gate | det |
| 4 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaves | obj |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 leaves | xcomp |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 crossing | mark |
| 7 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 leaves | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 field | det |
| 9 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 field | compound |
| 10 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crossing | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaves | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | Jacob | the gate | open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Theme | |||
| 2 | cross | gerund | Jacob not said here | a sheep field | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Patient |
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 happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | could | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The sheep could escape onto the road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sheep | det |
| 2 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 escape | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 escape | aux |
| 4 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 7 road | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 escape | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | could | the sheep | the road | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme onto road=Initial_Location |
Option 2
Nothing ever happens with open gates
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 happens | advmod |
| 3 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 gates | case |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gates | amod |
| 6 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 happens | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | Nothing | ever | with open gates | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
The grass would stop growing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 grass | det |
| 2 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stop | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stop | aux |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 stop | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | would | the grass | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | the grass not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
The sheep would stay put for good
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sheep | det |
| 2 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stay | aux |
| 4 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stay | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 good | case |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stay | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | would | the sheep | for good | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | the sheep not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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