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title: A farmer finds a newborn calf. What will it need to drink in its fir… — Mammals and how they care for their yo… · tree and pragmatics
description: A farmer finds a newborn calf. What will it need to drink in its first days? Test 1 of lesson 75 «Mammals and how they care for their young» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 1 · Mammals and how they care for their young

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A farmer finds a newborn calf. What will it need to drink in its first days?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** farmer · **What happens:** find, need, drink · **To what, where:** newborn calf

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This is test 1 of lesson 75 «Mammals and how they care for their young» of the world 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/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A farmer finds a newborn calf.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:75-mammals-and-their-young:t1:1
# text = A farmer finds a newborn calf.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	newborn	newborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | a farmer | a newborn calf |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Topic |

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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 will it need to drink in its first days?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:75-mammals-and-their-young:t1:2
# text = What will it need to drink in its first days?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | future | farmer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drink** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | farmer *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Fresh orange juice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:75-mammals-and-their-young:t1:o1:1
# text = Fresh orange juice
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Its mother's milk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:75-mammals-and-their-young:t1:o2:1
# text = Its mother's milk
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	milk	milk	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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Nothing for several weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:75-mammals-and-their-young:t1:o3:1
# text = Nothing for several weeks
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Clean pond water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:75-mammals-and-their-young:t1:o4:1
# text = Clean pond water
1	Clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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