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description: A child at a farm leaves a paper bag of crisps on a bench next to the goats. What may happen? Test 7 · ★ 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 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Chickens, goats and little creatures

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A child at a farm leaves a paper bag of crisps on a bench next to the goats. What may happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** child · **What happens:** leave, happen · **To what, where:** paper bag, bench

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 68 «Chickens, goats and little creatures» 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/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A child at a farm leaves a paper bag of crisps on a bench next to the goats.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:t7:1
# text = A child at a farm leaves a paper bag of crisps on a bench next to the goats.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	crisps	crisp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
15	next	next	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present | a child at a farm | a paper bag of crisps |  | a bench |  | next *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bag=Theme on bench=Location |

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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 may happen?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:t7:2
# text = What may happen?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	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** | may |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The goats will be scared of it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:t7:o1:1
# text = The goats will be scared of it
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | the goats |  |  |  |  | of it; scared *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The goats will ignore it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:t7:o2:1
# text = The goats will ignore it
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	ignore	ignore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ignore** | future | the goats | it |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A goat may chew and swallow the bag

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:t7:o3:1
# text = A goat may chew and swallow the bag
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	chew	chew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The goats will guard it from other animals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures:t7:o4:1
# text = The goats will guard it from other animals
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	guard	guard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | future | the goats | it |  |  |  | from other animals | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary from animal=Theme |

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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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