Test 7 · ★ · Chickens, goats and little creatures
A child at a farm leaves a paper bag of crisps on a bench next to the goats. What may happen?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child · What happens: leave, happen · To what, where: paper bag, bench
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 68 «Chickens, goats and little creatures» 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: A child at a farm leaves a paper bag of crisps on a bench next to the goats.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaves | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 farm | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 farm | det |
| 5 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 child | nmod |
| 6 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bag | det |
| 8 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bag | compound |
| 9 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaves | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 crisps | case |
| 11 | crisps | crisp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bag | nmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 bench | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bench | det |
| 14 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaves | obl |
| 15 | next | next | ADV | _ | 6 leaves | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 goats | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 goats | det |
| 18 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 next | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 leaves | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | a child at a farm | a paper bag of crisps | a bench | next property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bag=Theme on bench=Location |
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 may happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | 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 | may | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The goats will be scared of it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 goats | det |
| 2 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scared | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 scared | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 scared | cop |
| 5 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 scared | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | the goats | of it; scared property | tree rules |
Option 2
The goats will ignore it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 goats | det |
| 2 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ignore | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ignore | aux |
| 4 | ignore | ignore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ignore | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ignore | future | the goats | it | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A goat may chew and swallow the bag
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 goat | det |
| 2 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chew | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 chew | aux |
| 4 | chew | chew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 swallow | cc |
| 6 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 chew | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bag | det |
| 8 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swallow | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chew | may | a goat | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | swallow | infinitive | a goat not said here | the bag | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient |
Option 4
The goats will guard it from other animals
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 goats | det |
| 2 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 guard | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 guard | aux |
| 4 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 guard | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 animals | case |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 animals | amod |
| 8 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 guard | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | future | the goats | it | from other animals | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary from animal=Theme |
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