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title: «it's taken bloody ages, still just cream sloshing about» What will… — Where milk comes from: cow to carton,… · tree and pragmatics
description: «it's taken bloody ages, still just cream sloshing about» What will appear if he keeps shaking the jar? Test 7 of lesson 341 «Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and yoghurt» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 7 · Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and y…

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«it's taken bloody ages, still just cream sloshing about» What will appear if he keeps shaking the jar?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** take, slosh, appear, keep, shake · **To what, where:** it, jar

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This is test 7 of lesson 341 «Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and yoghurt» 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/341-where-milk-comes-from-cow-to-carton-cheese-butter-and-yoghurt/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:341-where-milk-comes-from-cow-to-carton-cheese-butter-and-yoghurt:t7:1
# text = «it's taken bloody ages, still just cream sloshing about» What will appear if he keeps shaking the jar?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	sloshing	slosh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
20	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme age=Destination |
| 2 | **slosh** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  | still | about *property* | vn pour-9.5 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **appear** | future |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | he |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **shake** | gerund | he *not said here* | the jar |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent jar=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A big block of hard yellow cheese with holes in it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:341-where-milk-comes-from-cow-to-carton-cheese-butter-and-yoghurt:t7:o1:1
# text = A big block of hard yellow cheese with holes in it
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	block	block	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Ice cream

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:341-where-milk-comes-from-cow-to-carton-cheese-butter-and-yoghurt:t7:o2:1
# text = Ice cream
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A pot of thick, sour yoghurt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:341-where-milk-comes-from-cow-to-carton-cheese-butter-and-yoghurt:t7:o3:1
# text = A pot of thick, sour yoghurt
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	yoghurt	yoghurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A lump of butter and some thin buttermilk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:341-where-milk-comes-from-cow-to-carton-cheese-butter-and-yoghurt:t7:o4:1
# text = A lump of butter and some thin buttermilk
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lump	lump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
7	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	buttermilk	buttermilk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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