Test 8 · ★★ · Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth

«why can't I just eat grass like a cow, it's free» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, grass · What happens: not eat, be · To what, where: grass · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	_	15 free	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 eat	advmod
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 eat	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 eat	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 eat	advmod
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 free	advcl
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obj
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 cow	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cow	det
11	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 free	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 free	cop
15	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 free	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	15 free	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 free	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not eat in a quote	can	I	grass	like a cow	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
2	is in a quote	present	grass		free property	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

Grass is poisonous to every animal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poisonous	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 poisonous	cop
3	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 animal	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 animal	det
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poisonous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Grass					to every animal; poisonous property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Only cows are allowed to eat grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 cows	advmod
2	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowed	xcomp
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	present · passive		cows					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	cows not said here	grass					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient

Option 3

People can digest grass perfectly well if they chew it for long enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 digest	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 digest	aux
3	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 digest	obj
5	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	3 digest	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 digest	advmod
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 chew	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 chew	nsubj
9	chew	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 digest	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 chew	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 long	case
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 chew	obl
13	enough	enough	ADV	_	9 chew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	digest	can	People	grass				perfectly, well property	tree rules
2	chew a condition, not said to happen	present	People	grass				enough property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

People have no microbe-filled stomach to break grass down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 stomach	det
4	microbe	microbe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 filled	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 microbe	punct
6	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stomach	amod
7	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 break	mark
9	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stomach	acl
10	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 break	obj
11	down	down	ADP	_	9 break	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	People	no filled stomach	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stomach=Patient
2	fill	participle			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	break down	to-infinitive	People not said here	grass	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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