Test 5 · ★★★ · Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and…

«sheep's had triplets, she'll be fine, she's a sheep» Why might triplets be harder for a ewe?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: had triplets, she, triplets · What happens: have, be · To what, where: sheep

This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 350 «Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 triplets	punct
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 triplets	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 sheep	case
4	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 triplets	amod
5	triplets	triplet	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fine	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 triplets	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fine	nsubj
8	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 fine	cop
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sheep	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sheep	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sheep	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sheep	det
15	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fine	parataxis
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 sheep	punct
17	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	21 harder	advmod
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 harder	aux
19	triplets	triplet	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 harder	nsubj
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 harder	cop
21	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 sheep	amod
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 ewe	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 ewe	det
24	ewe	ewe	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 harder	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 fine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	participle				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	future	sheep's had triplets		fine property	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	she	a sheep		tree rules
4	is	might	triplets		for a ewe; hard 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Ewes do not feed their lambs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ewes	ewe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feed	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 feed	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 feed	advmod
4	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lambs	nmod:poss
6	lambs	lamb	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not feed	present · do-support	Ewes		Ewes's lambs				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamb=Recipient

Option 2

She has six teats, which is far too many for her to manage at once

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 teats	nummod
4	teats	teat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 many	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 many	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 many	cop
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 many	advmod
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 many	advmod
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 teats	amod
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 manage	mark
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 manage	nsubj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 manage	mark
14	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 many	advcl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 manage	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	She	six teats		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teat=Patient
2	is	present	six teats		far, many property	tree rules
3	manage	to-infinitive	her = she			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She has only two teats, so one lamb must wait or be bottle-fed

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 two	advmod
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 teats	nummod
5	teats	teat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wait	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 wait	advmod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 lamb	nummod
9	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wait	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 wait	aux
11	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 has	parataxis
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 fed	cc
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 fed	aux:pass
14	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fed	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 bottle	punct
16	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 wait	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	She	two teats	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teat=Patient
2	wait	must	one lamb		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	feed	infinitive · passive	one lamb not said here		vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»

Option 4

Triplets are always too big to stand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Triplets	triplet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 big	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 big	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 big	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 big	advmod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stand	mark
7	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 big	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Triplets					always, big property	tree rules
2	stand	to-infinitive	Triplets not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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