Exam question 4 · Chickens, goats and little creatures

Select the response that is consistent with established guidance concerning goats.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, response · What happens: select, be, establish · To what, where: response

This is exam question 4 of lesson 68 «Chickens, goats and little creatures» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 guidance	case
8	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 guidance	amod
9	guidance	guidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consistent	obl
10	concerning	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 goats	amod
11	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 guidance	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response		with established guidance and concerning goats; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot

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

Goats should be lifted by their horns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lifted	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 lifted	aux:pass
4	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 horns	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 horns	nmod:poss
7	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lifted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	should · passive		Goats				by Goats's horns	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme by horn=Destination

Option 2

Goats should be fed sweets as treats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fed	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 fed	aux:pass
4	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fed	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 treats	case
7	treats	treat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	should · passive		Goats				as treats	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient sweet=Theme

Option 3

Goats eat only grass and ignore other things

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	only	only	ADV	_	4 grass	advmod
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ignore	cc
6	ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	conj
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	amod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ignore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Goats	grass					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
2	ignore	present	Goats not said here	other things					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Loose things should be kept out of reach, as goats chew almost anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 things	amod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	nsubj:pass
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 kept	aux:pass
5	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	8 reach	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 reach	case
8	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 chew	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 chew	mark
11	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 chew	nsubj
12	chew	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	parataxis
13	almost	almost	ADV	_	14 anything	advmod
14	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 chew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep out	should · passive		Loose things		reach			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme reach=Attribute
2	chew	present	goats	anything					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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