Test 8 · Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and y…

Why does it take so many litres of milk to make one kilogram of butter or cheese?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: take, make · To what, where: it, one kilogram

This is test 8 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 take	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	expl
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 many	advmod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 litres	amod
7	litres	litre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 milk	case
9	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 litres	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 make	mark
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	advcl
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 kilogram	nummod
13	kilogram	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 butter	case
15	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kilogram	nmod
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 cheese	cc
17	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kilogram	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present · do-support		it					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=Theme
2	make	to-infinitive		one kilogram of butter or cheese					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset kilogram=Product

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 · ← Mova's choice

Butter and cheese need milk to be boiled away completely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 cheese	cc
3	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Butter	conj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 boiled	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 boiled	aux:pass
8	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 need	xcomp
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 boiled	advmod
10	completely	completely	ADV	_	8 boiled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Butter and cheese	milk					tree rules
2	boil away not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	milk not said here					away, completely property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Milk is mostly water, and only a small part becomes butter or cheese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 water	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 water	cop
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	4 water	advmod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 becomes	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 becomes	cc
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 part	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 part	det
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 part	amod
10	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 becomes	nsubj
11	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 water	conj
12	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 becomes	xcomp
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 cheese	cc
14	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 butter	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Milk	water				mostly property	tree rules
2	become	present	a small part	butter or cheese					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

The cows drink most of the milk back

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	3 drink	nsubj
3	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 drink	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 milk	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 milk	det
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 most	nmod
8	back	back	ADV	_	3 drink	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	the cows	most of the milk					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Patient

Option 4

Half the milk is spilt on the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 milk	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 milk	det
3	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spilt	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 spilt	aux:pass
5	spilt	spilt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spilt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spilt	present · passive		half milk		the way			tree rules

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