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title: «hay, straw, same thing innit» How could you tell them apart? — A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking,… · tree and pragmatics
description: «hay, straw, same thing innit» How could you tell them apart? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 349 «A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding» 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 rig
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# Test 4 · ★★ · A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter f…

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«hay, straw, same thing innit» How could you tell them apart?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** hay · **What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** them · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 349 «A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding» 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/349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding:t4:1
# text = «hay, straw, same thing innit» How could you tell them apart?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could | hay and straw |  | them *= they* |  |  | apart *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Hay is dried grass, greener and sweet-smelling food; straw is golden, dry stalks for bedding

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding:t4:o1:1
# text = Hay is dried grass, greener and sweet-smelling food; straw is golden, dry stalks for bedding
1	Hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	dried	dried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	greener	green	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	smelling	smell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
11	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	stalks	stalk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	bedding	bedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Hay | dried grass |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **smell** | gerund | Hay *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | straw |  |  |  |  | golden *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They really are exactly the same

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding:t4:o2:1
# text = They really are exactly the same
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | They |  |  |  |  | exactly, same *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Straw is green and hay is golden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding:t4:o3:1
# text = Straw is green and hay is golden
1	Straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Straw |  |  |  |  | green *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | hay |  |  |  |  | golden *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Hay is only for horses, straw is only for cows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding:t4:o4:1
# text = Hay is only for horses, straw is only for cows
1	Hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Hay |  |  |  |  | for horses and cows | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | straw |  |  |  |  | for cows | 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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