Test 5 · Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and y…

What would happen to the milk supply if every cow on a farm had her calf in the same week?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cow · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: calf

This is test 5 of lesson 341 «Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and yoghurt» 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	_	7 supply	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 supply	det
6	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 supply	compound
7	supply	supply	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 had	mark
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 cow	det
10	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	nsubj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 farm	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 farm	det
13	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cow	nmod
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 calf	nmod:poss
16	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 week	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 week	det
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 week	amod
20	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to the milk supply	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	every cow on a farm	cow's calf			week		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=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.

The options

Option 1

The milk would stay exactly the same all year round, week after week after week

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 milk	det
2	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 same	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 same	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stay	xcomp
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl:unmarked
10	round	round	ADV	_	4 stay	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 week	punct
12	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl
13	after	after	ADP	_	14 week	case
14	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl
15	after	after	ADP	_	16 week	case
16	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	the milk				week; year	round, same property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

There would be loads of milk for months, then almost none at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 be	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 milk	case
6	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loads	nmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 months	case
8	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 be	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 none	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 none	advmod
11	almost	almost	ADV	_	12 none	advmod
12	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	3 be	nsubj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 none	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	would	loads of milk			there	month		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The cows would give no milk at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cows	det
2	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 milk	det
6	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	the cows	no milk		all			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent milk=Theme at all=Asset

Option 4

The milk would turn into cream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 milk	det
2	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 cream	case
6	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the milk			cream			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into cream=Trajectory

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