Test 4 · ★ · Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs

What would happen if sheep did not bunch together when scared?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: sheep · What happens: happen, not bunch together

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 144 «Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs» 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	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 bunch	mark
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bunch	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bunch	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 bunch	advmod
8	bunch	bunch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	advcl
9	together	together	ADV	_	8 bunch	advmod
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 scared	mark
11	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bunch	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not bunch together a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	sheep					together 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

The dog would herd them faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 herd	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 herd	aux
4	herd	herd	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 herd	obj
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 herd	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	herd	would	the dog	them = they				fast property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

Nothing at all would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

One dog could not easily move hundreds of sheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 dog	nummod
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 move	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 move	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 move	advmod
5	easily	easily	ADV	_	6 move	advmod
6	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 move	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 sheep	case
9	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hundreds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not move	could	One dog	hundreds of sheep				easily property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme

Option 4

Sheep would be safer from wolves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 safer	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 safer	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 safer	cop
4	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 wolves	case
6	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 safer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Sheep			wolves		safe property	tree rules

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