Test 7 · Farm animals and horses

Why might a horse kick if you creep up behind it silently?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: creep up · To what, where: kick

This is test 7 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 kick	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 kick	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kick	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kick	compound
5	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 creep	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 creep	nsubj
8	creep	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kick	advcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 creep	compound:prt
10	behind	behind	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 creep	obl
12	silently	silently	ADV	_	8 creep	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 kick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep up	present	you			kick		silently property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind it=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 · ✓ the right answer

It is startled by something it cannot see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 startled	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 startled	aux:pass
3	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 something	case
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 startled	obl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 see	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 see	advmod
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 something	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	startle	present · passive		It				by something	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	not see	can	it						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Horses kick everyone they meet, even from the front

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kick	nsubj
2	kick	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 kick	obj
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 meet	nsubj
5	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 kick	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 front	punct
7	even	even	ADV	_	10 front	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 front	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 front	det
10	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	present	Horses	everyone				from the front	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient from front=Co-Patient
2	meet	present	Horses = horse						vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It is trying to say hello

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	hello	hello	INTJ	_	5 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	It						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It wants to play with you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 play	mark
4	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	It						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	play not said to happen	to-infinitive						with you	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/28-farm-animals-and-horses/t7/