---
title: In a cartoon a goat chews up a whole tin can. What would you fix? — The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs,… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon a goat chews up a whole tin can. What would you fix? Test 6 of lesson 96 «The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands» 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands/t6/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands/) / t6

# Test 6 · The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In a cartoon a goat chews up a whole tin can. What would you fix?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** goat, you · **What happens:** chew up, fix · **To what, where:** cartoon

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 6 of lesson 96 «The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands» 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/96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands/#t6).

## The question {#question}

<!-- .note -->
*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon a goat chews up a whole tin can.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands:t6:1
# text = In a cartoon a goat chews up a whole tin can.
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	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chew up** | present | a goat |  |  | a cartoon |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- .note -->
*Sentence 2:* What would you fix?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands:t6:2
# text = What would you fix?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Goats only eat glass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands:t6:o1:1
# text = Goats only eat glass
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	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Goats nibble the paper label, not the metal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands:t6:o2:1
# text = Goats nibble the paper label, not the metal
1	Goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	nibble	nibble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	label	label	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nibble** | present | Goats | the paper label |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nothing, goats digest metal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands:t6:o3:1
# text = Nothing, goats digest metal
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	digest	digest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **digest** | present | Nothing goats | metal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Goats eat the cans but always spit out the paper label

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands:t6:o4:1
# text = Goats eat the cans but always spit out the paper label
1	Goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cans	can	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	spit	spit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	label	label	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Goats | the cans |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent can=Patient |
| 2 | **spit out** | infinitive | Goats *not said here* | the paper label |  |  |  | always *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent label=Theme |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs,…, test 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands/t5/)
- next →: [The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs,…, test 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands/t7/)
- ↑ back to [The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands/)