Test 6 · ★★ · Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth

«paint the cape blue then and the bull won't charge, ha» What would really happen?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, bull · What happens: paint, not charge, happen · To what, where: cape

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	_	2 paint	punct
2	paint	paint	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cape	det
4	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paint	obj
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 paint	xcomp
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 paint	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 charge	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bull	det
9	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 charge	nsubj
10	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 charge	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 charge	advmod
12	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 paint	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ha	punct
14	ha	ha	INTJ	_	12 charge	discourse
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 charge	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 happen	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 happen	aux
18	really	really	ADV	_	19 happen	advmod
19	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 charge	advcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 paint	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	paint in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the cape	then	blue property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent cape=Destination
2	not charge in a quote	future	the bull				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

It would run away from blue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 run	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 run	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 blue	case
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	would	It			blue		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from blue=Trajectory

Option 2

It would only charge at green, because bulls hate green grass that is too short

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 charge	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 charge	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 charge	advmod
4	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 green	case
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 charge	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hate	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 hate	mark
9	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hate	nsubj
10	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 charge	parataxis
11	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grass	amod
12	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hate	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 short	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 short	cop
15	too	too	ADV	_	16 short	advmod
16	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grass	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	charge	would	It		green		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at green=Trajectory
2	hate	present	bulls	green grass			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grass=Stimulus
3	is	present	green grass			short property	tree rules

Option 3

It would lie down and sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lie	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lie	aux
3	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 lie	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sleep	cc
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lie	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	would	It					down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sleep	present							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would still charge, because it chases the movement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 charge	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 charge	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 charge	advmod
4	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 chases	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 chases	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 chases	nsubj
8	chases	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 charge	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 movement	det
10	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chases	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	would	It				still		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	chase	present	it	the movement					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme

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