Test 9 · ★★ · Ducks, geese and farm myths

A gosling, a baby goose, hatches in a farmer's kitchen and the first thing it sees is the farmer's boots. What may happen?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gosling, thing, first thing · What happens: hatch, see, be, happen · To what, where: kitchen, first thing, boots

This is test 9 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A gosling, a baby goose, hatches in a farmer's kitchen and the first thing it sees is the farmer's boots.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gosling	det
2	gosling	gosling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hatches	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 goose	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 goose	det
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goose	compound
6	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gosling	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 gosling	punct
8	hatches	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 kitchen	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 farmer	det
11	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kitchen	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 farmer	case
13	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hatches	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 boots	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 thing	det
16	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 thing	amod
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 boots	nsubj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sees	nsubj
19	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 thing	acl:relcl
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 boots	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 farmer	det
22	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 boots	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 farmer	case
24	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 kitchen	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hatches	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hatch	present	a gosling and a baby goose		a farmer's kitchen and the farmer's boots	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient
2	see	present	thing	the first thing not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
3	is a	present	the first thing	the farmer's boots		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.

Sentence 2: What may happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	may							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Nothing, it ignores everything that moves and waits for a duck or goose to come

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 ignores	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ignores	nsubj
4	ignores	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 ignores	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 moves	nsubj
7	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 everything	acl:relcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 waits	cc
9	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 moves	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 duck	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 duck	det
12	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 waits	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 goose	cc
14	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 duck	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 come	mark
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 waits	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ignore	present	Nothing	everything		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
2	move	present				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	wait	present			for a duck or goose	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	to-infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It may follow the boots around as if they were its mother

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 follow	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 follow	aux
3	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boots	det
5	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 follow	obj
6	around	around	ADV	_	3 follow	advmod
7	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	12 mother	case
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 as	fixed
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 mother	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 mother	cop
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 follow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow around	may	It	the boots				around property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Theme
2	is	past	boots = boot					as its mother	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It will run away from the boots

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 run	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 run	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 boots	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boots	det
7	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	future	It			the boots		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from boot=Trajectory

Option 4

It will learn to talk

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 learn	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	aux
3	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 talk	mark
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	future	It						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	talk	to-infinitive							vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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