Test 7 · ★★ · Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth

What would happen if a cow had no microbes in its stomach?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cow · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: microbes, stomach

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cow	det
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 microbes	det
9	microbes	microbe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 stomach	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 stomach	nmod:poss
12	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a cow	no microbes		its stomach			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent microbe=Patient

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

It would grow wings

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It	wings					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme

Option 2

It would burp more methane

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 burp	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 burp	aux
3	burp	burp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 methane	amod
5	methane	methane	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burp	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burp	would	It	more methane					tree rules

Option 3

It would make more milk

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 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 milk	amod
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	It	more milk					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material milk=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It could not break down grass properly

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 break	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 break	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 break	advmod
4	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 break	compound:prt
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 break	obj
7	properly	properly	ADV	_	4 break	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not break down	could	It	grass				properly property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=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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