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title: On a farm trip in Kent, a boy feeds a goat and then eats his crisps… — The lunchroom and school trips · tree and pragmatics
description: On a farm trip in Kent, a boy feeds a goat and then eats his crisps without washing. What could happen? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 258 «The lunchroom and school trips» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice
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# Test 3 · ★ · The lunchroom and school trips

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On a farm trip in Kent, a boy feeds a goat and then eats his crisps without washing. What could happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** feed, eat, wash, happen · **To what, where:** goat, farm trip, crisps

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 258 «The lunchroom and school trips» of the everyday 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/everyday/258-lunchroom-and-school-trips/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* On a farm trip in Kent, a boy feeds a goat and then eats his crisps without washing.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips:t3:1
# text = On a farm trip in Kent, a boy feeds a goat and then eats his crisps without washing.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Kent	Kent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	feeds	feed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	crisps	crisp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | present | a boy |  | a goat | a farm trip in Kent |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Recipient |
| 2 | **eat** | present | a boy *not said here* | boy's crisps |  |  | then |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crisp=Patient |
| 3 | **wash** | gerund | a boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 could happen?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips:t3:2
# text = What could happen?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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 | **happen** | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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His crisps will taste of goat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips:t3:o1:1
# text = His crisps will taste of goat
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	crisps	crisp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** | future | His crisps |  |  |  |  | of goat | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Germs such as E. coli could make him ill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips:t3:o2:1
# text = Germs such as E. coli could make him ill
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	E.	E.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	coli	coli	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | could | Germs such E. coli | him *= he* |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, as goats carry no germs on their mouths or fur

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips:t3:o3:1
# text = Nothing, as goats carry no germs on their mouths or fur
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | present | goats | no germs |  | goats's mouths or fur |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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The goat will follow him home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips:t3:o4:1
# text = The goat will follow him home
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | future | the goat | him *= he* |  |  |  | home *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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