Test 1 · ★★ · A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter f…

In Shaun the Sheep, the flock dances about on two legs in thick fleece all summer. What would a real farmer do with a woolly sheep in early summer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: flock, real farmer · What happens: dance, do · To what, where: Shaun

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 349 «A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding» 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: In Shaun the Sheep, the flock dances about on two legs in thick fleece all summer.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Shaun	case
2	Shaun	Shaun	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 dances	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sheep	det
4	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Shaun	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Shaun	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flock	det
7	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dances	nsubj
8	dances	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	about	about	ADV	_	8 dances	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 legs	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 legs	nummod
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dances	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 fleece	case
14	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fleece	amod
15	fleece	fleece	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dances	obl
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 summer	det
17	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dances	obl:unmarked
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 dances	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	present	the flock			Shaun and the Sheep	summer	on two legs; in thick fleece; about property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shaun=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.

Sentence 2: What would a real farmer do with a woolly sheep in early summer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 farmer	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 farmer	amod
5	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 sheep	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sheep	det
9	woolly	woolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sheep	amod
10	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 summer	case
12	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 summer	amod
13	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	would	a real farmer				summer	with a woolly sheep	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Shear it in midwinter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shear	shear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shear	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 midwinter	case
4	midwinter	midwinter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shear	imperative	you not said here	it		midwinter			vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Initial_Location

Option 2

Wash it in the bath every week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Wash	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 bath	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bath	det
5	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wash	obl
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 week	det
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wash	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	imperative	you not said here	it		the bath	week		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Shear it, so it does not get too hot and dirty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shear	shear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shear	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 get	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	8 get	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 get	nsubj
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 get	advmod
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Shear	parataxis
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 hot	advmod
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 get	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dirty	cc
12	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hot	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shear	imperative	you not said here	it					vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Initial_Location
2	not get	present · do-support	it					hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Leave the wool on forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wool	det
3	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	1 Leave	compound:prt
5	forever	forever	ADV	_	1 Leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave on	imperative	you not said here	the wool				forever property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wool=Theme

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