Test 12 · ★★ · Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth

«why does milk cost so much, cows just make it all the time» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cows · What happens: do, make, be · To what, where: milk cost, cost · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 209 «Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth» of the biology 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 does	advmod
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cost	compound
5	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	3 does	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct
9	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 make	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 make	advmod
11	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 does	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 make	obj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 time	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obl:unmarked
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 right	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 make	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present		milk cost			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Eventuality
2	make in a quote	present	cows	cost	time		tree rules
3	is	present				right property	tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A cow makes milk only after having a calf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cow	det
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 having	advmod
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 having	mark
7	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 makes	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 calf	det
9	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 having	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	a cow	milk					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Product
2	have	gerund	a cow not said here	a calf					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Patient

Option 2

Bulls make half the milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	5 milk	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 milk	det
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Bulls	half milk					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Product

Option 3

Cows only make milk on Sundays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 make	advmod
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 Sundays	case
6	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Cows	milk			sunday		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Product

Option 4

Cows make milk from the day they are born

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 born	nsubj:pass
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 born	aux:pass
9	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 day	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Cows	milk			day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Product
2	bear	present · passive	the day not said here	Cows = cow					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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