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# Test 6 · ★★ · Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth

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«paint the cape blue then and the bull won't charge, ha» What would really happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, bull · **What happens:** paint, not charge, happen · **To what, where:** cape

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This is test 6 · ★★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:209-cows-cud-milk-burps-and-the-red-cape-myth:t6:1
# text = «paint the cape blue then and the bull won't charge, ha» What would really happen?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	paint	paint	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cape	cape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	charge	charge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	ha	ha	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
16	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	really	really	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | the cape |  |  | then | blue *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent cape=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **charge** *in a quote* | future | the bull |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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It would run away from blue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:209-cows-cud-milk-burps-and-the-red-cape-myth:t6:o1:1
# text = It would run away from blue
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run away** | would | It |  |  | blue |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from blue=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would only charge at green, because bulls hate green grass that is too short

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:209-cows-cud-milk-burps-and-the-red-cape-myth:t6:o2:1
# text = It would only charge at green, because bulls hate green grass that is too short
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	charge	charge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hate	hate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	too	too	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge** | would | It |  |  | green |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at green=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hate** | present | bulls | green grass |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grass=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | green grass |  |  |  |  | short *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would lie down and sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:209-cows-cud-milk-burps-and-the-red-cape-myth:t6:o3:1
# text = It would lie down and sleep
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie down** | would | It |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sleep** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It would still charge, because it chases the movement

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:209-cows-cud-milk-burps-and-the-red-cape-myth:t6:o4:1
# text = It would still charge, because it chases the movement
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	charge	charge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	chases	chase	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge** | would | It |  |  |  | still |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **chase** | present | it | the movement |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme |

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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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