Test 6 · ★ · Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers

«sheep must hate being sheared, poor things» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sheep · What happens: hate, shear, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 5 «Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers» of the technology 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 hate	punct
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hate	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hate	aux
4	hate	hate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sheared	aux:pass
6	sheared	shear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hate	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 things	punct
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hate	conj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 hate	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 right	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hate	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hate in a quote	must	sheep		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	shear not said to happen, in a quote	gerund · passive	sheep not said here		vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»
3	is	present		right 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

Sheep get ill after every shearing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	xcomp
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 shearing	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 shearing	det
6	shearing	shearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Sheep				after every shearing	ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Shearing pulls all the wool out by the roots, so it always hurts the sheep

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shearing	shearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulls	nsubj
2	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 wool	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wool	det
5	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulls	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	2 pulls	compound:prt
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 roots	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roots	det
9	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pulls	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hurts	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 hurts	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hurts	nsubj
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 hurts	advmod
14	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 pulls	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sheep	det
16	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hurts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull out	present	Shearing	all wool				by the roots	tree rules
2	hurt	present	Shearing	the sheep				always property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sheep=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Sheep are sheared every single day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sheared	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sheared	aux:pass
3	sheared	shear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sheared	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shear	present · passive		Sheep			day		vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: subject=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Done properly, shearing is like a haircut and keeps sheep cool in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 shearing	amod
2	properly	properly	ADV	_	1 Done	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Done	punct
4	shearing	shearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 haircut	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 haircut	cop
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 haircut	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 haircut	det
8	haircut	haircut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 keeps	cc
10	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 haircut	conj
11	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 keeps	obj
12	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 keeps	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 summer	case
14	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 haircut	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	participle				properly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Done shearing		summer	like a haircut	tree rules
3	keep	present	Done shearing not said here	sheep		cool property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme

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