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title: In a cartoon a goat chews a tin can and swallows it. What is real? — Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon a goat chews a tin can and swallows it. What is real? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 287 «Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat» 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 9 · ★ · Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat

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In a cartoon a goat chews a tin can and swallows it. What is real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** goat · **What happens:** chew, swallow, be · **To what, where:** cartoon, tin

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 287 «Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat» 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/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon a goat chews a tin can and swallows it.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat:t9:1
# text = In a cartoon a goat chews a tin can and swallows it.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	chews	chew	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	swallows	swallow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chew** | present | a goat |  |  | a cartoon |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **swallow** | present | a goat *not said here* | tin |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is real?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat:t9:2
# text = What is real?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Goats live on tin cans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat:t9:o1:1
# text = Goats live on tin cans
1	Goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cans	can	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Goats |  |  | tin cans |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on can=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Goats never put anything in their mouths, not even grass or leaves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat:t9:o2:1
# text = Goats never put anything in their mouths, not even grass or leaves
1	Goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **put** | past | Goats | anything |  | Goats's mouths |  | grass or leaves *obl* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent anything=Theme in mouth=Destination |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Goats test things with their mouths but cannot eat tin cans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat:t9:o3:1
# text = Goats test things with their mouths but cannot eat tin cans
1	Goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	test	test	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	cans	can	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **test** | present | Goats | things |  |  |  | with Goats's mouths | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **eat** | can | Goats *not said here* | tin cans |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent can=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Goats only eat metal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat:t9:o4:1
# text = Goats only eat metal
1	Goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Goats | metal |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent metal=Patient |

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