Test 15 · ★ · Chickens, goats and little creatures

goat's lowering its head at me

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: lower · To what, where: head

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 68 «Chickens, goats and little creatures» 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	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lowering	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 goat	case
3	lowering	lower	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lowering	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lowering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lower	gerund		goat's head				at me	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme at i=Destination

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

Turn your back on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 back	nmod:poss
3	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	imperative	you not said here	your back		back			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme

Option 2

Bend down to its level

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bend	bend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 Bend	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 level	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 level	nmod:poss
5	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bend	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend down	imperative	you not said here			its level		down property	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to level=Location

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

Move away calmly, it may butt you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Move	advmod
3	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	1 Move	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 butt	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 butt	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 butt	aux
7	butt	butt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Move	conj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 butt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move away	imperative	you not said here					away, calmly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	butt	may	it	you					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent you=Instrument

Option 4

Push its head down with both hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Push	obj
4	down	down	ADV	_	1 Push	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 hands	det
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Push	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push down	imperative	you not said here	its head				with both hands; down property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/t15/