Test 9 · ★ · Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat

In a cartoon a goat chews a tin can and swallows it. What is real?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: goat · What happens: chew, swallow, be · To what, where: cartoon, tin

This is test 9 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon a goat chews a tin can and swallows it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chews	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 goat	det
5	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chews	nsubj
6	chews	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tin	det
8	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 can	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 chews	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 swallows	cc
11	swallows	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 chews	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 swallows	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 chews	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew	present	a goat			a cartoon			vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	swallow	present	a goat not said here	tin					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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 is real?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 real	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 real	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						real property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Goats live on tin cans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 cans	case
4	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cans	compound
5	cans	can	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Goats			tin cans			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on can=Location

Option 2

Goats never put anything in their mouths, not even grass or leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 put	advmod
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 put	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 mouths	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouths	nmod:poss
7	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grass	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 grass	advmod
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 grass	advmod
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 leaves	cc
13	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 grass	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not put	past	Goats	anything		Goats's mouths		grass or leaves obl	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent anything=Theme in mouth=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Goats test things with their mouths but cannot eat tin cans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 test	nsubj
2	test	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 test	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 mouths	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mouths	nmod:poss
6	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 test	obl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 eat	cc
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 eat	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 eat	advmod
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 test	conj
11	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cans	compound
12	cans	can	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	present	Goats	things				with Goats's mouths	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	not eat	can	Goats not said here	tin cans					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent can=Patient

Option 4

Goats only eat metal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Goats	metal					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent metal=Patient

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