Test 6 · The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing…
In a cartoon a goat chews up a whole tin can. What would you fix?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: goat, you · What happens: chew up, fix · To what, where: cartoon
This is test 6 of lesson 96 «The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands» 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 goat chews up a whole tin can.
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 | 6 chews | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 goat | det |
| 5 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chews | nsubj |
| 6 | chews | chew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 chews | compound:prt |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tin | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tin | amod |
| 10 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 can | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 chews | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 chews | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chew up | present | a goat | a cartoon | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 would you fix?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 fix | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fix | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 fix | nsubj |
| 4 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fix | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | would | you | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
The options
Option 1
Goats only eat glass
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 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eat | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | Goats | glass | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Goats nibble the paper label, not the metal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 nibble | nsubj |
| 2 | nibble | nibble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres 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 nibble | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 metal | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 metal | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 metal | det |
| 9 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nibble | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nibble | present | Goats | the paper label | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Patient |
Option 3
Nothing, goats digest metal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 goats | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 digest | nsubj |
| 4 | digest | digest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 digest | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | digest | present | Nothing goats | metal | tree rules |
Option 4
Goats eat the cans but always spit out the paper label
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cans | det |
| 4 | cans | can | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 eat | obj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 spit | cc |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 spit | advmod |
| 7 | spit | spit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 eat | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 spit | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 label | det |
| 10 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 label | compound |
| 11 | label | label | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spit | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | Goats | the cans | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent can=Patient | ||||
| 2 | spit out | infinitive | Goats not said here | the paper label | always property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent label=Theme |
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