Test 3 · ★ · The lunchroom and school trips
On a farm trip in Kent, a boy feeds a goat and then eats his crisps without washing. What could happen?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: feed, eat, wash, happen · To what, where: goat, farm trip, crisps
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 258 «The lunchroom and school trips» of the everyday 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: On a farm trip in Kent, a boy feeds a goat and then eats his crisps without washing.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 trip | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 trip | det |
| 3 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trip | compound |
| 4 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feeds | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Kent | case |
| 6 | Kent | Kent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 trip | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 trip | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feeds | nsubj |
| 10 | feeds | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 goat | det |
| 12 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feeds | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 eats | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 eats | advmod |
| 15 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 feeds | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 crisps | nmod:poss |
| 17 | crisps | crisp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 eats | obj |
| 18 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 19 washing | mark |
| 19 | washing | wash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 eats | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 feeds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | present | a boy | a goat | a farm trip in Kent | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Recipient | |||
| 2 | eat | present | a boy not said here | boy's crisps | then | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crisp=Patient | |||
| 3 | wash | gerund | a boy not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «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 could happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | could | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
His crisps will taste of goat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 crisps | nmod:poss |
| 2 | crisps | crisp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 taste | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 taste | aux |
| 4 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 goat | case |
| 6 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taste | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taste | future | His crisps | of goat | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Germs such as E. coli could make him ill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 make | nsubj |
| 2 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 5 coli | case |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 2 such | fixed |
| 4 | E. | E. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 coli | compound |
| 5 | coli | coli | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Germs | nmod |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | could | Germs such E. coli | him = he | ill property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
Option 3
Nothing, as goats carry no germs on their mouths or fur
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 carry | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 carry | mark |
| 4 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carry | nsubj |
| 5 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Nothing | acl:relcl |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 germs | det |
| 7 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carry | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 mouths | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carry | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 fur | cc |
| 12 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mouths | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | goats | no germs | goats's mouths or fur | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The goat will follow him home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 goat | det |
| 2 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 follow | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 follow | aux |
| 4 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 follow | obj |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 follow | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | future | the goat | him = he | home property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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