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title: «how do u tell a goat from a sheep anyway» Which is a good clue? — Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climber… · tree and pragmatics
description: «how do u tell a goat from a sheep anyway» Which is a good clue? Test 10 of lesson 211 «Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth» 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 10 · Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth

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«how do u tell a goat from a sheep anyway» Which is a good clue?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** u · **What happens:** tell, be · **To what, where:** goat, good clue · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 of lesson 211 «Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth» 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/211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth:t10:1
# text = «how do u tell a goat from a sheep anyway» Which is a good clue?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	u	you	PRON	PRP	Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	csubj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
13	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	clue	clue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · do-support | u |  | a goat |  |  | from a sheep; anyway *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent goat=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a good clue |  |  |  |  | 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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Goats have no ears

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth:t10:o1:1
# text = Goats have no ears
1	Goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Goats | no ears |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sheep have beards and goats never do, even the old billy goats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth:t10:o2:1
# text = Sheep have beards and goats never do, even the old billy goats
1	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	beards	beard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	billy	billy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Sheep |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **do** | present | beards and goats |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Goats have four legs and sheep have six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth:t10:o3:1
# text = Goats have four legs and sheep have six
1	Goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Goats | four legs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | sheep | six |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent six=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A goat's tail usually points up, a sheep's hangs down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth:t10:o4:1
# text = A goat's tail usually points up, a sheep's hangs down
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	points	point	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	hangs	hang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point up** | present | a goat's tail |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hang down** | present | a sheep |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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