Test 11 · ★ · Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat

Why might a farmer add a little seaweed to cattle food?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: farmer · What happens: add, cattle · To what, where: little seaweed, food

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 287 «Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 add	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 add	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 farmer	det
4	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 add	nsubj
5	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 seaweed	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seaweed	amod
8	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 add	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 cattle	mark
10	cattle	cattle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 add	advcl
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cattle	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 add	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	might	a farmer	a little seaweed					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seaweed=Patient
2	cattle	to-infinitive	a farmer not said here	food					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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It can cut the methane cows burp out

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 cut	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	aux
3	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cows	det
5	methane	methane	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cows	compound
6	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 burp	nsubj
7	burp	burp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	conj
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 burp	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	can	It						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
2	burp out	present	the methane cows						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It stops cows from eating

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	2 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stops	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 eating	mark
5	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stops	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	It	cows					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality cow=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It makes cows swim

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	cows					tree rules
2	swim	infinitive	cows not said here						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It makes the milk green

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 green	det
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 green	compound
5	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the milk green					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material green=Product

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