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Test 8 · ★★ · Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed anim…

In a cartoon a rooster is the boss who lays all the eggs. What is real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rooster, boss · What happens: be, lay · To what, where: boss, cartoon, eggs

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 293 «Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals» 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 rooster is the boss who lays all the eggs.

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	8 boss	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rooster	det
5	rooster	rooster	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boss	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 boss	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boss	det
8	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 lays	nsubj
10	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 boss	acl:relcl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 eggs	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 eggs	det
13	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lays	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 boss	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a rooster	the boss		a cartoon			tree rules
2	lay	present	the boss	all eggs					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

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 · ← Mova's choice

Both hens and roosters lay eggs every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 hens	det
2	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lay	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 roosters	cc
4	roosters	rooster	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hens	conj
5	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lay	obj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	both hens and roosters	eggs			day		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

Option 2

Roosters lay the biggest eggs in the coop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roosters	rooster	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 eggs	det
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 eggs	amod
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lay	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 coop	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coop	det
8	coop	coop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	Roosters	the biggest eggs		the coop			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in coop=Destination

Option 3

Only chicks lay eggs, before they grow up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 chicks	advmod
2	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lay	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grow	punct
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 grow	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grow	nsubj
8	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 grow	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	chicks	eggs					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
2	grow up	present	chicks = chick						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Hens lay the eggs; roosters lay none

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 eggs	det
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lay	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct
6	roosters	rooster	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lay	nsubj
7	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
8	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	7 lay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	Hens	the eggs					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
2	lay	present	roosters	none					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Result

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