Test 8 · The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing…

What could happen to a farm sheep that is never shorn?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, not shorn · To what, where: farm sheep

This is test 8 of lesson 96 «The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands» 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	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 sheep	case
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	3 happen	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 shorn	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 shorn	aux:pass
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 shorn	advmod
11	shorn	shorn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sheep	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	could						to a farm sheep	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not shorn	present · passive		a farm sheep					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 · ✓ the right answer

Its wool would grow huge and heavy

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 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grow	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 heavy	cc
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 huge	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	Its wool					huge property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would grow horns instead

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obj
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It	horns				instead property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horn=Theme

Option 3

Its wool would fall off by itself in spring

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	off	off	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
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 spring	case
9	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	would	Its wool				spring	by wool	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

Its wool would turn into hair

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 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 hair	case
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	Its wool			hair			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into hair=Trajectory

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