Test 8 · ★ · Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat

«what's chewing cud, gross, why'd she spit up her lunch» Why do cows do it?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: she, cows · What happens: chew, spit up, do · To what, where: cud, lunch

This is test 8 · ★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 chewing	punct
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 chewing	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 chewing	aux
4	chewing	chew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	cud	cud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chewing	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gross	punct
7	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cud	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 spit	punct
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 spit	advmod
10	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 spit	aux
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 spit	nsubj
12	spit	spit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 chewing	parataxis
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 spit	compound:prt
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 lunch	nmod:poss
15	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spit	obj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 spit	punct
17	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	20 do	advmod
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 do	aux
19	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 do	nsubj
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 spit	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 do	obj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 chewing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	chew in a quote	present · progressive		cud	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cud=Patient
2	spit up in a quote	would	she	her lunch	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lunch=Theme
3	do	present · do-support	cows	lunch	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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 is ill, and is being sick because the grass was bad for her

The tree, 14 words

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 ill	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ill	cop
3	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sick	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sick	cc
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sick	cop
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sick	cop
8	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ill	conj
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 bad	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 grass	det
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bad	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bad	cop
13	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sick	advcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	She	ill property	tree rules
2	is	present	She not said here	sick property	tree rules
3	is	past	the grass	for her = she; bad property	tree rules

Option 2

She is feeding her calf

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 feeding	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 feeding	aux
3	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 calf	nmod:poss
5	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feeding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present · progressive	She		her calf				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Recipient

Option 3

She does not like grass

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 like	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	present · do-support	She	grass					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot grass=Theme

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

Chewing grass twice helps break it down so microbes can digest it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chewing	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 helps	csubj
2	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chewing	obj
3	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Chewing	advmod
4	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 helps	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 break	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	5 break	compound:prt
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	11 digest	mark
9	microbes	microbe	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 digest	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 digest	aux
11	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 helps	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 digest	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	chew	gerund		grass	twice property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
2	help	present	Chewing			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	break down	infinitive	Chewing not said here	grass		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	digest	can	microbes	grass		tree rules

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