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Test 11 · Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth

A field of ewes and lambs is very noisy. Why are they all calling?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: field, lambs · What happens: be, call · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 211 «Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth» 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

Sentence 1: A field of ewes and lambs is very noisy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 field	det
2	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 noisy	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 ewes	case
4	ewes	ewe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 field	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lambs	cc
6	lambs	lamb	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ewes	conj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 noisy	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 noisy	advmod
9	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 noisy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a field of ewes and lambs					noisy 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.

Sentence 2: Why are they all calling?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 calling	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 calling	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 calling	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 calling	nsubj
5	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 calling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present · progressive	lambs = lamb						vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

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

Mothers and lambs find each other by their calls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 lambs	cc
3	lambs	lamb	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mothers	conj
4	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 find	obj
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 calls	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 calls	nmod:poss
9	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	Mothers and lambs	each				by Mothers's calls	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Topic
2	call		Mothers = mother						nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

They are scaring away the shearer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scaring	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scaring	aux
3	scaring	scare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 scaring	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shearer	det
6	shearer	shearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scaring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare away	present · progressive	They	the shearer				away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus shearer=Experiencer

Option 3

They are telling the farmer they are hungry and want more food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 telling	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 telling	aux
3	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 farmer	det
5	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 telling	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hungry	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hungry	cop
8	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 farmer	acl:relcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 want	cc
10	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 telling	conj
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 food	amod
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 want	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	They		the farmer				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent farmer=Recipient
2	is	present	they	the farmer not said here				hungry property	tree rules
3	want	present	They not said here	more food					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

Option 4

Lambs are practising songs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lambs	lamb	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 practising	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 practising	aux
3	practising	practise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 practising	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	practise	present · progressive	Lambs	songs					tree rules

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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