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title: What would happen if sheep did not bunch together when scared? — Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if sheep did not bunch together when scared? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 144 «Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs

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What would happen if sheep did not bunch together when scared?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sheep · **What happens:** happen, not bunch together

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 144 «Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs:t4:1
# text = What would happen if sheep did not bunch together when scared?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	bunch	bunch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
11	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **bunch together** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | sheep |  |  |  |  | together *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The dog would herd them faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs:t4:o1:1
# text = The dog would herd them faster
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	herd	herd	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **herd** | would | the dog | them *= they* |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing at all would change

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs:t4:o2:1
# text = Nothing at all would change
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | Nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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One dog could not easily move hundreds of sheep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs:t4:o3:1
# text = One dog could not easily move hundreds of sheep
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **move** | could | One dog | hundreds of sheep |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sheep would be safer from wolves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs:t4:o4:1
# text = Sheep would be safer from wolves
1	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	safer	safe	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Sheep |  |  | wolves |  | safe *property* | tree rules |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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