Test 9 · ★★ · Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth

«cow's licking its own nose holes, gross, is it ill» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cow, it · What happens: lick, be · To what, where: own nose holes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	_	4 licking	punct
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 licking	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 licking	aux
4	licking	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 ill	csubj
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 holes	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 holes	amod
7	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 holes	compound
8	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 licking	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gross	punct
10	gross	gross	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 holes	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 licking	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 ill	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ill	nsubj
14	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 ill	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ill	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 ill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lick in a quote	present · progressive	cow	its own nose holes and gross		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hole=Source
2	is in a quote	present	it		ill 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

Yes, it is trying to stop a sneeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 trying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 trying	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 trying	aux
5	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stop	mark
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 trying	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sneeze	det
9	sneeze	sneeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	it						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive		a sneeze					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality sneeze=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, cows have long tongues and do it normally

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tongues	amod
6	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 do	cc
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	obj
10	normally	normally	ADV	_	8 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	cows	long tongues					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient
2	do	infinitive	cows not said here	it				normally property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3

Yes, it must see a vet at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 vet	det
7	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	must	it	a vet					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vet=Stimulus

Option 4

No, it is tasting the coming rain on the wind, which cows always do before a storm

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 tasting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tasting	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tasting	aux
5	tasting	taste	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rain	det
7	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 rain	amod
8	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tasting	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 wind	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wind	det
11	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tasting	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 do	obj
14	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 do	nsubj
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 do	advmod
16	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 wind	acl:relcl
17	before	before	ADP	_	19 storm	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 storm	det
19	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tasting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present · progressive	it	the coming rain	the wind	before a storm		vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rain=Theme on wind=Location
2	come	gerund						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	present	cows	the wind			always property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality

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