Test 8 · ★★★ · Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and…

«sheep are thick, can't tell one face from another» What did a study find?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sheep · What happens: be, not tell, do · To what, where: one face, another, study find · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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	_	4 thick	punct
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thick	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thick	cop
4	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
6	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 tell	advmod
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thick	conj
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 face	nummod
10	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 another	case
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 tell	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 did	nsubj
15	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	ccomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 find	det
17	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 find	compound
18	find	find	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 did	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 thick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	sheep			thick property	tree rules
2	not tell speech: assert in a quote	can	sheep not said here	one face	another		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent face=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do	past		a study find			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent find=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

Sheep can recognise about 50 sheep faces and remember them for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 recognise	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 recognise	aux
3	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 50	advmod
5	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 faces	nummod
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 faces	compound
7	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 recognise	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 remember	cc
9	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 recognise	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 remember	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 years	case
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 remember	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recognise	can	Sheep	50 sheep faces					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus
2	remember	infinitive	Sheep not said here	faces = face			year		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

Sheep cannot see faces at all, only the colour of the wool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 see	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 colour	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 colour	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 colour	det
11	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 wool	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wool	det
14	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 colour	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	Sheep	faces		all		the colour of the wool obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus

Option 3

Sheep recognise only their own reflection

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 recognise	nsubj
2	recognise	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 reflection	advmod
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 reflection	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reflection	amod
6	reflection	reflection	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 recognise	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recognise	present	Sheep	Sheep's own reflection					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reflection=Stimulus

Option 4

Sheep remember faces for one minute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 remember	nsubj
2	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 remember	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 minute	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 minute	nummod
6	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remember	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	Sheep	faces			minute		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent face=Theme

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