Test 15 · ★★ · Allergies, horses and farm animals

gonna give the horse a carrot with my fingers

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: give · To what, where: carrot, horse

This is test 15 · ★★ of lesson 67 «Allergies, horses and farm animals» 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	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	2 give	dep
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 carrot	det
6	carrot	carrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 fingers	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 fingers	nmod:poss
9	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	a carrot	the horse			with my fingers	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient carrot=Theme

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

Hold it by the tip with your fingers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hold	obj
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 tip	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tip	det
5	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 fingers	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fingers	nmod:poss
8	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	it				by the tip; with your fingers	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme by tip=Location

Option 2

Throw it at the horse's face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	7 face	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 face	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 horse	case
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	it		the horse's face			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at face=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Hold it on a flat hand, fingers together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hold	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 hand	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hand	det
5	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hand	amod
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fingers	punct
8	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hold	obl
9	together	together	ADV	_	1 Hold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	it		a flat hand		fingers obl; together property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme on hand=Location

Option 4

Hold it high above its head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hold	obj
3	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Hold	advmod
4	above	above	ADP	_	6 head	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	it		its head		high property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme above head=Location

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