Test 12 · ★ · Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat

What would happen to a cow that never had a calf?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, not have · To what, where: cow

This is test 12 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 cow	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cow	det
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 had	obj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 had	advmod
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cow	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 calf	det
11	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a cow	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not have	past		a cow					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

She would lay eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	aux
3	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	would	She	eggs					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

Option 2

Her milk would be chocolate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 milk	nmod:poss
2	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chocolate	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 chocolate	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 chocolate	cop
5	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	Her milk	chocolate					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She would not make milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 make	advmod
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	would	She	milk					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She would make twice as much milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 much	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 milk	amod
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	She	much milk					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Product

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