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title: «every cow in my picture book is black and white with a pink nose» W… — Ducks, geese and farm myths · tree and pragmatics
description: «every cow in my picture book is black and white with a pink nose» What is right? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 213 «Ducks, geese and farm myths» 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 6 · ★★ · Ducks, geese and farm myths

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«every cow in my picture book is black and white with a pink nose» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cow · **What happens:** be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 213 «Ducks, geese and farm myths» 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/213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths:t6:1
# text = «every cow in my picture book is black and white with a pink nose» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	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	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | every cow in my picture book |  |  |  |  | black *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* |  | every cow in my picture book *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a pink nose | 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 {#o1}

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Black and white cows are only in cartoons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths:t6:o1:1
# text = Black and white cows are only in cartoons
1	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Black cows |  |  | cartoons |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Brown cows are just dirty black and white ones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths:t6:o2:1
# text = Brown cows are just dirty black and white ones
1	Brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Brown cows | dirty black ones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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All cows in the world are black and white

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths:t6:o3:1
# text = All cows in the world are black and white
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | all cows in the world |  |  |  |  | black *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | all cows in the world *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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Many cow breeds are brown, red or black

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths:t6:o4:1
# text = Many cow breeds are brown, red or black
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	breeds	breed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Many cow breeds |  |  |  |  | brown *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Many cow breeds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Many cow breeds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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