Test 8 · Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth

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

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, not shorn · To what, where: farm sheep

This is test 8 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

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	_	10 shorn	mark
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	10 shorn	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 shorn	aux:pass
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 shorn	advmod
10	shorn	shorn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 years	case
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shorn	obl
13	?	?	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 shorn a condition, not said to happen	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

Its wool would fall out by itself

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	4 fall	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 fall	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 itself	case
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall out	would	Its wool					by wool	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by itself=Location

Option 2

Its wool would stop at a short length

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	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 length	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 length	det
7	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 length	amod
8	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Its wool			a short length			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location

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

Its wool would keep growing into a huge heavy fleece

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	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	into	into	ADP	_	10 fleece	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fleece	det
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fleece	amod
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fleece	amod
10	fleece	fleece	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 growing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	Its wool						tree rules
2	grow	gerund	Its wool not said here					into a huge heavy fleece result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into fleece=Result

Option 4

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

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