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description: What would happen if a sheepdog ran straight at the flock from every side at once? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 287 «Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat» 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 wrong.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat

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What would happen if a sheepdog ran straight at the flock from every side at once?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sheepdog · **What happens:** happen, run · **To what, where:** flock, side

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 287 «Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat» 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/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat:t7:1
# text = What would happen if a sheepdog ran straight at the flock from every side at once?
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	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sheepdog	sheepdog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	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 | **run** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a sheepdog | the flock |  | every side |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent flock=Theme at once=Trajectory from side=Initial\_Location |

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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 sheep would sit down calmly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat:t7:o1:1
# text = The sheep would sit down calmly
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | would | the sheep |  |  |  |  | calmly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Nothing, sheep ignore dogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat:t7:o2:1
# text = Nothing, sheep ignore dogs
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ignore	ignore	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ignore** | present | sheep | dogs |  |  |  | Nothing *vocative* | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The sheep would scatter in panic instead of moving together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat:t7:o3:1
# text = The sheep would scatter in panic instead of moving together
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	scatter	scatter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	panic	panic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	9	mark	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	together	together	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scatter** | would | the sheep |  |  | panic |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in panic=Destination |
| 2 | **move together** | gerund | the sheep *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The sheep would follow the dog home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat:t7:o4:1
# text = The sheep would follow the dog home
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | would | the sheep | the dog |  |  |  | home *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |

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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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