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Test 7 · ★★ · Allergies, horses and farm animals

Someone says pigs are dirty because they love mud. Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Someone, pigs · What happens: say, be, love · To what, where: mud · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ 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: Someone says pigs are dirty because they love mud.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dirty	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dirty	cop
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 love	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 love	nsubj
8	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dirty	advcl
9	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 love	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Someone						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	pigs					dirty property	tree rules
3	love	present	pigs = pig	mud					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mud=Stimulus

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: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Pigs need mud to grow their teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 grow	mark
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 need	advcl
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 teeth	nmod:poss
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Pigs	mud					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mud=Theme
2	grow	to-infinitive	Pigs not said here	Pigs's teeth					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tooth=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Pigs are clean and clever; mud cools them because they cannot sweat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 clean	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 clean	cop
3	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 clever	cc
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clean	conj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 cools	punct
7	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cools	nsubj
8	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 clean	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cools	obj
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 sweat	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sweat	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 sweat	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 sweat	advmod
14	sweat	sweat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cools	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Pigs					clean property	tree rules
2	be		Pigs not said here						tree rules
3	cool	present	mud	Pigs = pig					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	not sweat	can	Pigs = pig						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Pigs roll in mud because they enjoy being dirty and smelly all the time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 roll	nsubj
2	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 mud	case
4	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 roll	obl
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 enjoy	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 enjoy	nsubj
7	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dirty	advcl
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 dirty	cop
9	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 roll	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 smelly	cc
11	smelly	smelly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dirty	conj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 time	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 roll	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	present	Pigs			mud	time		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mud=Trajectory
2	enjoy	present	Pigs = pig						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	gerund						dirty property	tree rules
4	be								tree rules

Option 4

Mud makes pigs smell nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 smell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Mud	pigs					tree rules
2	smell	infinitive	pigs not said here					nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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