Test 5 · ★★ · Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth

«cows lying down, gonna rain, cancel the picnic» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cows, you · What happens: lie down, cancel, be · To what, where: gonna rain, picnic · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ 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 lying	punct
2	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lying	nsubj
3	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 cancel	csubj
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 lying	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rain	punct
6	gonna	gonna	X	_	7 rain	compound
7	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lying	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cancel	punct
9	cancel	cancel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 picnic	det
11	picnic	picnic	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cancel	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 cancel	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cancel	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 cancel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lie down in a quote	gerund	cows	gonna rain	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cancel in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the picnic		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

Cows lie down to rest whatever the weather, so it tells you nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lie	nsubj
2	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 lie	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 rest	mark
5	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lie	advcl
6	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 rest	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 weather	det
8	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 whatever	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tells	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 tells	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tells	nsubj
12	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lie	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tells	iobj
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 tells	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	lie down	present	Cows			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rest	to-infinitive	Cows not said here	whatever			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whatever=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	present	weather	nothing	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient nothing=Topic

Option 2

No, cows lying down means snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 cows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 means	nsubj
4	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 cows	acl
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 lying	advmod
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	gerund	cows not said here					down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	cows	snow					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Topic

Option 3

Yes, cows always know when rain is coming, they feel it in their legs

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 know	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 know	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 coming	advmod
7	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 coming	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 coming	aux
9	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 know	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 feel	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 feel	nsubj
12	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 feel	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 legs	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 legs	nmod:poss
16	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 feel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	cows			always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	come	present · progressive	rain				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	feel	present	cows = cow	rain	cows's legs		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in leg=Location

Option 4

Yes, but only brown cows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 cows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 cows	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 cows	advmod
5	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cows	amod
6	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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