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description: Select the response that is consistent with established guidance concerning goats. Exam question 4 of lesson 68 «Chickens, goats and little creatures» 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 was right.
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# Exam question 4 · Chickens, goats and little creatures

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Select the response that is consistent with established guidance concerning goats.

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, response · **What happens:** select, be, establish · **To what, where:** response

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 68 «Chickens, goats and little creatures» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:e4:1
# text = Select the response that is consistent with established guidance concerning goats.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	guidance	guidance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	concerning	concerning	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the response |  |  |  |  | with established guidance and concerning goats; consistent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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Goats should be lifted by their horns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:e4:o1:1
# text = Goats should be lifted by their horns
1	Goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | should · passive |  | Goats |  |  |  | by Goats's horns | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme by horn=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Goats should be fed sweets as treats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:e4:o2:1
# text = Goats should be fed sweets as treats
1	Goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	treats	treat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | should · passive |  | Goats |  |  |  | as treats | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient sweet=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Goats eat only grass and ignore other things

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:e4:o3:1
# text = Goats eat only grass and ignore other things
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	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	ignore	ignore	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Goats | grass |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient |
| 2 | **ignore** | present | Goats *not said here* | other things |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |

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

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Loose things should be kept out of reach, as goats chew almost anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:e4:o4:1
# text = Loose things should be kept out of reach, as goats chew almost anything
1	Loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	chew	chew	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep out** | should · passive |  | Loose things |  | reach |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme reach=Attribute |
| 2 | **chew** | present | goats | anything |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient |

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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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