Test 2 · Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth

In a cartoon a goat crunches up a whole tin can and burps. What is real?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: goat · What happens: crunch up, burp, be · To what, where: cartoon

This is test 2 of lesson 211 «Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon a goat crunches up a whole tin can and burps.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crunches	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 goat	det
5	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crunches	nsubj
6	crunches	crunch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 crunches	compound:prt
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tin	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tin	amod
10	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 can	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 crunches	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 burps	cc
13	burps	burp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 crunches	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 crunches	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crunch up	present	a goat			a cartoon			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cartoon=Location
2	burp	present	a goat not said here						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

Sentence 2: What is real?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 real	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 real	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						real property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Goats can eat tins but not plastic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	tins	tin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 plastic	cc
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 plastic	advmod
7	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	can	Goats	tins					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tin=Patient

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

A goat may nibble the paper label, but it does not eat the tin

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 goat	det
2	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nibble	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 nibble	aux
4	nibble	nibble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 label	det
6	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 label	compound
7	label	label	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nibble	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eat	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 eat	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eat	nsubj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 eat	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 eat	advmod
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nibble	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tin	det
15	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nibble	may	a goat	the paper label					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Patient
2	not eat	present · do-support	goat	the tin					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tin=Patient

Option 3

Goats eat tins on purpose to get the iron that their bones need

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tins	tin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 purpose	case
5	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 eat	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 iron	det
9	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 need	mark
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bones	nmod:poss
12	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 need	nsubj
13	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 get	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	eat	present	Goats	tins	purpose	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tin=Patient
2	get	to-infinitive	Goats not said here	the iron		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer iron=Stimulus
3	need	present	Goats's bones			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

Goats eat tins only in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tins	tin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 winter	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Goats	tins			winter		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tin=Patient

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