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Test 6 · ★★ · Allergies, horses and farm animals

A cyclist zooms past a horse without warning and the horse jumps sideways. Why did this happen?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cyclist, horse, this · What happens: zoom, jump, happen

This is test 6 · ★★ 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 cyclist zooms past a horse without warning and the horse jumps sideways.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cyclist	det
2	cyclist	cyclist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 zooms	nsubj
3	zooms	zoom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	past	past	ADP	_	6 horse	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 zooms	obl
7	without	without	ADP	_	8 warning	case
8	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 zooms	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 jumps	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 horse	det
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 jumps	nsubj
12	jumps	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 zooms	conj
13	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	12 jumps	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 zooms	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	zoom	present	a cyclist					past a horse; without warning	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past horse=Trajectory
2	jump	present	the horse					sideways property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: Why did this happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 happen	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 happen	nsubj
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past · do-support	this						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

The horse was falling asleep on its feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 falling	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 falling	aux
4	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 falling	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 feet	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 feet	nmod:poss
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 falling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · progressive	the horse			horse's feet		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on foot=Location

Option 2

Horses do not like the bright colour of bikes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 like	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 colour	det
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 colour	amod
7	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 like	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 bikes	case
9	bikes	bike	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 colour	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	present · do-support	Horses	the bright colour of bikes					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot colour=Theme

Option 3

The horse wanted to race against the bike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 race	mark
5	race	race	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	against	against	ADP	_	8 bike	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bike	det
8	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 race	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the horse						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	race not said to happen	to-infinitive	the horse not said here			the bike			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against bike=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Sudden noise and movement scare horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 noise	amod
2	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 horses	cc
4	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scare	compound
5	scare	scare	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 horses	compound
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 noise	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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