Test 3 · ★★ · Allergies, horses and farm animals

Why should you hold your hand flat when feeding a horse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: hold, feed · To what, where: hand, horse

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 hold	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hold	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 hold	nsubj
4	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	obj
7	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hold	xcomp
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 feeding	advmod
9	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 hold	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 horse	det
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feeding	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	should	you	your hand				flat property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	feed	gerund	you not said here		a horse				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient

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

So the horse does not bite your fingers by mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 bite	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bite	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bite	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 bite	advmod
6	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fingers	nmod:poss
8	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bite	obj
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 mistake	case
10	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bite	present · do-support	the horse	your fingers				by mistake	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent finger=Patient by mistake=Location

Option 2

Horses only eat from flat things like plates and trays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 things	case
5	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obl
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 plates	case
8	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 things	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 trays	cc
10	trays	tray	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 plates	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Horses			flat things like plates and trays			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from thing=Source

Option 3

So the horse sees the food better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 sees	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sees	nsubj
4	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 food	det
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sees	obj
7	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 sees	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	the horse	the food				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus

Option 4

So the food does not fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 fall	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 food	det
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fall	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fall	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 fall	advmod
6	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fall	present · do-support	the food						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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