Test 6 · ★★ · Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, g…

«sheep alone in the field bleating like mad, drama queen» Why is it upset?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: field, sheep · What happens: bleat, be

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 139 «Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 sheep	punct
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 upset	nsubj
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 sheep	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 field	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 field	det
6	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sheep	nmod
7	bleating	bleat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 field	acl
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 mad	case
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bleating	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 queen	punct
11	drama	drama	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 queen	compound
12	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 field	appos
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 queen	punct
14	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 upset	advmod
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 upset	cop
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 upset	nsubj
17	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 upset	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bleat in a quote	gerund	the field not said here					like mad	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	sheep in the field					upset property	tree rules

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Sheep are flock animals, and a lone sheep feels unsafe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 animals	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 animals	cop
3	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 animals	compound
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 feels	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 feels	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sheep	det
8	lone	lone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sheep	amod
9	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feels	nsubj
10	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 animals	parataxis
11	unsafe	unsafe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feels	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Sheep	flock animals					tree rules
2	feel	present	a lone sheep					unsafe property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

It is singing to the farmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 singing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 singing	aux
3	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 farmer	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present · progressive	It		the farmer				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to farmer=Recipient

Option 3

It is hungry for meat and wants the farmer to come and feed it some

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hungry	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 meat	case
5	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hungry	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wants	cc
7	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 farmer	det
9	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wants	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 come	mark
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 farmer	acl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 feed	cc
13	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 come	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 feed	obj
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		for meat; hungry property	tree rules
2	want	present		the farmer		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot farmer=Theme
3	come	to-infinitive		the farmer not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	feed	infinitive		farmer		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient some=Theme

Option 4

It wants to be shorn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 shorn	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 shorn	aux:pass
5	shorn	shorn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wants	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	It						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	shorn not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive							tree rules

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