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title: «why does milk cost so much, cows just make it all the time» What is… — Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cap… · tree and pragmatics
description: «why does milk cost so much, cows just make it all the time» What is right? Test 12 · ★★ of lesson 209 «Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 12 · ★★ · Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth

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«why does milk cost so much, cows just make it all the time» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cows · **What happens:** do, make, be · **To what, where:** milk cost, cost · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 209 «Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/209-cows-cud-milk-burps-and-the-red-cape-myth/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:209-cows-cud-milk-burps-and-the-red-cape-myth:t12:1
# text = «why does milk cost so much, cows just make it all the time» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
17	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | present |  | milk cost |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Eventuality |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | present | cows | cost |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A cow makes milk only after having a calf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:209-cows-cud-milk-burps-and-the-red-cape-myth:t12:o1:1
# text = A cow makes milk only after having a calf
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | a cow | milk |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Product |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | a cow *not said here* | a calf |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Bulls make half the milk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:209-cows-cud-milk-burps-and-the-red-cape-myth:t12:o2:1
# text = Bulls make half the milk
1	Bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Bulls | half milk |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Cows only make milk on Sundays

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:209-cows-cud-milk-burps-and-the-red-cape-myth:t12:o3:1
# text = Cows only make milk on Sundays
1	Cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Cows | milk |  |  | sunday |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cows make milk from the day they are born

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:209-cows-cud-milk-burps-and-the-red-cape-myth:t12:o4:1
# text = Cows make milk from the day they are born
1	Cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Cows | milk |  |  | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Product |
| 2 | **bear** | present · passive | the day *not said here* | Cows *= cow* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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**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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