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Test 5 · ★★ · Allergies, horses and farm animals

A boy feeds lawn clippings to horses over a fence because he thinks it is just grass. Why is this a problem?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, fence, this · What happens: feed, think, be · To what, where: lawn clippings, horses, fence, grass, problem · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A boy feeds lawn clippings to horses over a fence because he thinks it is just grass.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feeds	nsubj
3	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clippings	compound
5	clippings	clipping	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feeds	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 horses	case
7	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feeds	obl
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 fence	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fence	det
10	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feeds	obl
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 thinks	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thinks	nsubj
13	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 feeds	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 grass	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 grass	cop
16	just	just	ADV	_	17 grass	advmod
17	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thinks	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 feeds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	a boy	lawn clippings	horses	a fence			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent clipping=Theme to horse=Recipient
2	think speech: other	present	boy						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	fence	grass					tree rules

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: Why is this a problem?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 problem	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 problem	cop
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 problem	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 problem	det
5	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 problem	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this	a problem					tree rules

The options

Option 1

It is too much food for one day

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	5 food	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 food	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 day	nummod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 food	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	much food			day		tree rules

Option 2

Horses only eat carrots and apples

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	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 apples	cc
6	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carrots	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Horses	carrots and apples					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carrot=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The wrong food can make horses very ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 food	det
2	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 food	amod
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	obj
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 ill	advmod
8	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	can	the wrong food	horses				ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material horse=Product

Option 4

Lawn grass is too short for horses to bite and chew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grass	compound
2	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 short	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 short	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 short	advmod
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 bite	mark
7	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bite	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 bite	mark
9	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 short	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 chew	cc
11	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 bite	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Lawn grass					short property	tree rules
2	bite	to-infinitive	horses						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	chew	infinitive	horses not said here						vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=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.

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