Test 7 · ★ · Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat

What would happen if a sheepdog ran straight at the flock from every side at once?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sheepdog · What happens: happen, run · To what, where: flock, side

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 287 «Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat» 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	_	7 ran	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sheepdog	det
6	sheepdog	sheepdog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ran	nsubj
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	11 flock	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 flock	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 flock	det
11	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ran	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 side	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 side	det
14	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flock	nmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 ran	obl
17	?	?	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	run a condition, not said to happen	past	a sheepdog	the flock		every side			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent flock=Theme at once=Trajectory from side=Initial_Location

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 sheep would sit down calmly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sheep	det
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sit	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	aux
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sit	compound:prt
6	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	4 sit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	would	the sheep					calmly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, sheep ignore dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 ignore	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ignore	nsubj
4	ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ignore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	present	sheep	dogs				Nothing vocative	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The sheep would scatter in panic instead of moving together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sheep	det
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scatter	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 scatter	aux
4	scatter	scatter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 panic	case
6	panic	panic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scatter	obl
7	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	9 moving	mark
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 instead	fixed
9	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 scatter	advcl
10	together	together	ADV	_	9 moving	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scatter	would	the sheep			panic			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in panic=Destination
2	move together	gerund	the sheep not said here					together property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The sheep would follow the dog home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sheep	det
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 follow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 follow	aux
4	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 follow	obj
7	home	home	ADV	_	4 follow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	would	the sheep	the dog				home property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme

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