Test 8 · Farm animals and horses

What should you do before going into a field or pen with animals?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: do, go · To what, where: field

This is test 8 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 going	mark
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 do	advcl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 field	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 field	det
9	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 pen	cc
11	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 field	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 animals	case
13	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 going	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	you						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	go	gerund	you not said here			a field or pen		with animals	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_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.

The options

Option 1

Shout so the animals come over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	5 come	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 animals	det
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Shout	ccomp
6	over	over	ADV	_	5 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come over	present	the animals					over property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Ask the farmer if it is safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 safe	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 safe	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 safe	cop
7	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ask	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		the farmer				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent farmer=Recipient
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	farmer					safe property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Climb the fence to see better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fence	det
3	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Climb	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Climb	advcl
6	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	imperative	you not said here	the fence					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location fence=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	you not said here					well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Bring food to throw over to them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bring	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 throw	mark
4	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Bring	advcl
5	over	over	ADP	_	4 throw	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	imperative	you not said here	food					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme
2	throw over	to-infinitive	you not said here		them = they				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent to they=Destination

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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