Test 6 · ★★★ · Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and…

«my goat ate a whole can of beans, tin and all» What really happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: goat · What happens: eat, happen · To what, where: whole

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 350 «Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres» 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 ate	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 goat	nmod:poss
3	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 whole	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ate	obj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	advcl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 beans	case
9	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 can	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tin	punct
11	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beans	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 all	cc
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 beans	conj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 all	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 happened	nsubj
16	really	really	ADV	_	17 happened	advmod
17	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 all	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	past	my goat	a whole					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whole=Patient
2	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

It nibbled the paper label, not the tin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 nibbled	nsubj
2	nibbled	nibble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 label	det
4	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 label	compound
5	label	label	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nibbled	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tin	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 tin	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tin	det
9	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nibbled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nibble	past	It	the paper label				the tin obl	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Patient

Option 2

Goats can digest metal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 digest	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 digest	aux
3	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 digest	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	digest	can	Goats	metal					tree rules

Option 3

Goats only eat tins, not grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tins	tin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 grass	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 grass	advmod
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Goats	tins				grass obl	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tin=Patient

Option 4

It swallowed the tin whole and was fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swallowed	nsubj
2	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tin	det
4	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swallowed	obj
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 swallowed	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fine	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fine	cop
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 swallowed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past	It	the tin				whole property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tin=Patient
2	is	past						fine property	tree rules

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