Test 5 · ★ · Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs

What would happen if a border collie had no shepherd's whistles to follow on a big hill?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: border collie, shepherd · What happens: happen, have, follow, whistle · To what, where: whistles, big hill

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 196 «Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs» 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 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 collie	det
6	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 collie	compound
7	collie	collie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 shepherd	det
10	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 whistles	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 shepherd	case
12	whistles	whistle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 follow	mark
14	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 had	advcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 hill	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hill	det
17	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hill	amod
18	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 follow	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a border collie	no shepherd's whistles		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient
3	follow	to-infinitive	a border collie not said here		a big hill	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on hill=Location
4	whistle		no shepherd			nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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 eat the sheep

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 eat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sheep	det
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	It	the sheep					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient

Option 2

It would still know exactly where to go, because collies read the shepherd's mind

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	4 know	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 where	advmod
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 know	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 where	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 read	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 read	mark
11	collies	collie	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 read	nsubj
12	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shepherd	det
14	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mind	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 shepherd	case
16	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	know	would	It		still	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	go	to-infinitive				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	read	past	collies	the shepherd's mind		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Topic
4	mind		the shepherd			nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

It would herd cows instead

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 herd	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 herd	aux
3	herd	herd	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 herd	obj
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 herd	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	herd	would	It	cows				instead property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cow=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would find it much harder to know where to bring the sheep

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 find	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 find	obj
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 harder	advmod
6	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 find	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 know	mark
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 harder	xcomp
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 bring	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 bring	mark
11	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 know	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sheep	det
13	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	find	would	It	it		hard property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	know	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	bring	to-infinitive			the sheep		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sheep=Destination

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