Test 6 · ★ · Pets and farm animals

How could you test the farmer's "cows lying down means rain" saying?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, cows · What happens: test, lie down, mean, say · To what, where: farmer, rain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 7 «Pets and farm animals» of the myths 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 test	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 test	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 test	nsubj
4	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 means	csubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 test	obj
7	's	's	PART	_	6 farmer	case
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 cows	punct
9	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 test	parataxis
10	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 cows	acl
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 lying	advmod
12	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 means	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 saying	punct
15	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 rain	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	test	could	you	the farmer		tree rules
2	lie down in a quote	gerund	cows not said here		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mean in a quote	present		rain		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Topic
4	say speech: assert	gerund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

Ask the cows by mooing at them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cows	det
3	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ask	obj
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 mooing	mark
5	mooing	moo	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Ask	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mooing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		the cows				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cow=Recipient
2	moo	gerund	you not said here					at cows = cow	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at they=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Keep a chart of cows lying down and rain for a few weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 chart	det
3	chart	chart	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 cows	case
5	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chart	nmod
6	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 cows	acl
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 lying	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rain	cc
9	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chart	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 weeks	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 weeks	det
12	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 weeks	amod
13	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	a chart of cows and rain	week		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chart=Theme
2	lie down	gerund	cows not said here			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	chart			cows			nom chart «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Check whether cows like umbrellas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	3 cows	case
3	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Check	obl
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 umbrellas	case
5	umbrellas	umbrella	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cows	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	imperative	you not said here					whether cows like umbrellas	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Watch one cow in the field for one minute and write it down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 cow	nummod
3	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watch	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 field	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 field	det
6	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watch	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 minute	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 minute	nummod
9	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watch	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 write	cc
11	write	write	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 write	obj
13	down	down	ADP	_	11 write	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	imperative	you not said here	one cow		the field	minute		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme
2	write down	infinitive	you not said here	field					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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