Test 6 · ★★ · Ducks, geese and farm myths

«every cow in my picture book is black and white with a pink nose» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cow · What happens: be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 213 «Ducks, geese and farm myths» 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	_	9 black	punct
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 cow	det
3	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 black	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 book	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 book	nmod:poss
6	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 book	compound
7	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cow	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 black	cop
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 white	cc
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 black	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 nose	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 nose	det
14	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 nose	amod
15	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 white	obl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 black	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	9 black	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 black	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	every cow in my picture book	black property	tree rules
2	be in a quote		every cow in my picture book not said here	with a pink nose	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

Black and white cows are only in cartoons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cows	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 white	cc
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Black	conj
4	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cartoons	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cartoons	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 cartoons	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 cartoons	case
8	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Black cows			cartoons			tree rules

Option 2

Brown cows are just dirty black and white ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cows	amod
2	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ones	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 ones	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 dirty	advmod
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ones	amod
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ones	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 white	cc
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 black	conj
9	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Brown cows	dirty black ones					tree rules

Option 3

All cows in the world are black and white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 cows	det
2	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 black	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 world	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cows	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 black	cop
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 white	cc
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 black	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all cows in the world					black property	tree rules
2	be		all cows in the world not said here						tree rules

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

Many cow breeds are brown, red or black

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 breeds	amod
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breeds	compound
3	breeds	breed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 brown	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 brown	cop
5	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 red	punct
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brown	conj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 black	cc
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brown	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Many cow breeds	brown property	tree rules
2	be		Many cow breeds not said here		tree rules
3	be		Many cow breeds not said here		tree rules

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