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description: «why are there stripes across that old hill, like steps» What made them? Test 9 · ★ 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 9 · ★ · Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs

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«why are there stripes across that old hill, like steps» What made them?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** steps · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** stripes, old hill, steps

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs:t9:1
# text = «why are there stripes across that old hill, like steps» What made them?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	across	across	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | stripes and steps |  | that old hill; there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | steps | steps *= step* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product |

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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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Farmers ploughing the side of the hill into steps every single year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs:t9:o1:1
# text = Farmers ploughing the side of the hill into steps every single year
1	Farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	ploughing	plough	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
11	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plough** | gerund | Farmers *not said here* | the side of the hill |  |  | year | into steps | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent side=Theme into step=Destination |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Sheep walking one behind another on the same paths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs:t9:o2:1
# text = Sheep walking one behind another on the same paths
1	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
4	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	nmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | gerund | Sheep *not said here* | one |  | another |  | on the same paths | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent one=Theme on path=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Giant worms digging in the soil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs:t9:o3:1
# text = Giant worms digging in the soil
1	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | gerund | Giant worms *not said here* |  |  | the soil |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in soil=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Rain washing the grass into lines

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs:t9:o4:1
# text = Rain washing the grass into lines
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | gerund | Rain *not said here* | the grass |  | lines |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient |

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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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