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description: What would happen if a border collie had no shepherd's whistles to follow on a big hill? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 196 «Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs

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What would happen if a border collie had no shepherd's whistles to follow on a big hill?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** border collie, shepherd · **What happens:** happen, have, follow, whistle · **To what, where:** whistles, big hill

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 196 «Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs» 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/196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs:t5:1
# text = What would happen if a border collie had no shepherd's whistles to follow on a big hill?
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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	collie	collie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	whistles	whistle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	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 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a border collie | no shepherd's whistles |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient |
| 3 | **follow** | to-infinitive | a border collie *not said here* |  |  | a big hill |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on hill=Location |
| 4 | **whistle** |  | no shepherd |  |  |  |  |  | nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It would eat the sheep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs:t5:o1:1
# text = It would eat the sheep
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | would | It | the sheep |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would still know exactly where to go, because collies read the shepherd's mind

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs:t5:o2:1
# text = It would still know exactly where to go, because collies read the shepherd's mind
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	collies	collie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | would | It |  |  |  | still |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **read** | past | collies | the shepherd's mind |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Topic |
| 4 | **mind** |  | the shepherd |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would herd cows instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs:t5:o3:1
# text = It would herd cows instead
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	herd	herd	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **herd** | would | It | cows |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cow=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It would find it much harder to know where to bring the sheep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs:t5:o4:1
# text = It would find it much harder to know where to bring the sheep
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | would | It | it |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bring** | to-infinitive |  |  | the sheep |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sheep=Destination |

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