Test 7 · ★★ · Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, g…

What would happen to a farm sheep that was never shorn for years?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, not shorn · To what, where: farm sheep

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 sheep	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sheep	det
6	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sheep	compound
7	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 shorn	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 shorn	aux:pass
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 shorn	advmod
11	shorn	shorn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sheep	acl:relcl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 years	case
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shorn	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a farm sheep	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not shorn	past · passive		a farm sheep			year		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

It would turn into a goat

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 goat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 goat	det
6	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It					into a goat result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into goat=Result

Option 2

Its wool would just drop off by itself every spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wool	nmod:poss
2	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 drop	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 drop	advmod
5	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 drop	compound:prt
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 itself	case
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 drop	obl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 spring	det
10	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drop	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop off	would	Its wool				spring	by wool	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by itself=Trajectory

Option 3

Nothing, wool stops growing after a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 wool	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stops	nsubj
4	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stops	xcomp
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 year	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 growing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Nothing wool						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	grow	gerund	Nothing wool not said here				year		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Its fleece would keep growing very heavy and hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 fleece	nmod:poss
2	fleece	fleece	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 heavy	advmod
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 keep	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hot	cc
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 heavy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	Its fleece					heavy property	tree rules
2	grow	gerund	Its fleece not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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