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title: Which is true about horses and fingers? — Animals outdoors, on the farm and at t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is true about horses and fingers? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 206 «Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 1 · ★ · Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo

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Which is true about horses and fingers?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 206 «Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo:t1:1
# text = Which is true about horses and fingers?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about horses and fingers; true *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Horses only ever bite on purpose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo:t1:o1:1
# text = Horses only ever bite on purpose
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	bite	bite	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | infinitive | Horses |  |  | purpose | ever |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on purpose=Location |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A horse can bite fingers by mistake if food is held in them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo:t1:o2:1
# text = A horse can bite fingers by mistake if food is held in them
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | can | a horse | fingers |  |  |  | by mistake | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent finger=Patient by mistake=Location |
| 2 | **hold** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | food |  |  |  | in fingers *= finger* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in they=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Horses never bite anything at all except grass and hay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo:t1:o3:1
# text = Horses never bite anything at all except grass and hay
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	bite	bite	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
7	except	except	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bite** | present | Horses | anything |  | all |  | except grass and hay | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent anything=Patient at all=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Horses like being fed by strangers without anyone asking first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo:t1:o4:1
# text = Horses like being fed by strangers without anyone asking first
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obl:agent	_	_
9	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | gerund · passive | anyone | Horses |  |  |  | by strangers | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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**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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