Test 11 · ★ · Where meat and fish come from, told honestly

In a cartoon a pig happily walks into a sausage machine and comes out as links. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pig · What happens: walk, come out, be · To what, where: cartoon

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 343 «Where meat and fish come from, told honestly» 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 pig happily walks into a sausage machine and comes out as links.

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	7 walks	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pig	det
5	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walks	nsubj
6	happily	happily	ADV	_	7 walks	advmod
7	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 machine	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 machine	det
10	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 machine	compound
11	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walks	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 comes	cc
13	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 walks	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 comes	compound:prt
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 links	case
16	links	link	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 comes	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 walks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	a pig			a cartoon		into a sausage machine result; happily property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into machine=Result
2	come out	present	a pig not said here					as links	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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 wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1

Nothing is wrong, that is just how sausages are made at the factory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 made	obl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 made	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	11 made	advmod
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 made	advmod
9	sausages	sausage	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 made	nsubj:pass
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 made	aux:pass
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wrong	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 factory	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 factory	det
14	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					wrong property	tree rules
2	is	present · passive		sausages		the factory		that obl; make property	tree rules

Option 2

Pigs walk out alive at the other end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walk	nsubj
2	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 walk	advmod
4	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 walk	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 end	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 end	amod
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk out	present	Pigs				at the other end	alive, out property	vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Animals are killed first, and the law says they must usually be made unconscious first

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 killed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 killed	aux:pass
3	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 killed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 says	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 law	det
8	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 killed	parataxis
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 made	aux
12	usually	usually	ADV	_	14 made	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 made	aux:pass
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 says	ccomp
15	unconscious	unconscious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 made	xcomp
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 made	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kill	present · passive		Animals	first property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	the law			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make	must · passive		Animals = animal	first, unconscious, usually property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Sausages come from chickens only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sausages	sausage	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 chickens	case
4	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	obl
5	only	only	ADV	_	2 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Sausages					from chickens	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from chicken=Initial_Location

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