Test 7 · Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and y…

«it's taken bloody ages, still just cream sloshing about» What will appear if he keeps shaking the jar?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: take, slosh, appear, keep, shake · To what, where: it, jar

This is test 7 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 taken	punct
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taken	nsubj:pass
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	aux
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ages	amod
6	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 taken	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sloshing	punct
8	still	still	ADV	_	11 sloshing	advmod
9	just	just	ADV	_	11 sloshing	advmod
10	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sloshing	compound
11	sloshing	slosh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 taken	advcl
12	about	about	ADV	_	11 sloshing	advmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 sloshing	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 appear	obj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 appear	aux
16	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sloshing	advcl
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 keeps	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 keeps	nsubj
19	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 appear	advcl
20	shaking	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 keeps	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 jar	det
22	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shaking	obj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 taken	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	present · passive		it			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme age=Destination
2	slosh in a quote	gerund			still	about property	vn pour-9.5 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
3	appear	future					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme
4	keep a condition, not said to happen	present	he				tree rules
5	shake	gerund	he not said here	the jar			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent jar=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

A big block of hard yellow cheese with holes in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 block	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 block	amod
3	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 cheese	case
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cheese	amod
6	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cheese	amod
7	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 block	nmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 holes	case
9	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 block	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 holes	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Ice cream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cream	compound
2	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A pot of thick, sour yoghurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pot	det
2	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 yoghurt	case
4	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 yoghurt	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thick	punct
6	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 yoghurt	amod
7	yoghurt	yoghurt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pot	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A lump of butter and some thin buttermilk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lump	det
2	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 butter	case
4	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lump	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 buttermilk	cc
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 buttermilk	det
7	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 buttermilk	amod
8	buttermilk	buttermilk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lump	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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