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title: Your uncle says donkeys are stupid and stubborn. What is fairer? — The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your uncle says donkeys are stupid and stubborn. What is fairer? Test 10 of lesson 96 «The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands» 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 10 · The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing…

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Your uncle says donkeys are stupid and stubborn. What is fairer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** uncle, donkeys · **What happens:** say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 of lesson 96 «The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands» 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/96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your uncle says donkeys are stupid and stubborn.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands:t10:1
# text = Your uncle says donkeys are stupid and stubborn.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	stubborn	stubborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Your uncle |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | donkeys |  |  |  |  | stupid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | donkeys *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is fairer?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands:t10:2
# text = What is fairer?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fairer	fair	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Yes, they are the least clever farm animal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands:t10:o1:1
# text = Yes, they are the least clever farm animal
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	least	least	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | they | the clever farm animal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They refuse to move because they are lazy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands:t10:o2:1
# text = They refuse to move because they are lazy
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	refuse	refuse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | present | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **move** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | they |  |  |  |  | lazy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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They are stubborn because they cannot hear you well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands:t10:o3:1
# text = They are stubborn because they cannot hear you well
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	stubborn	stubborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | They |  |  |  |  | stubborn *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **hear** | can | they | you |  |  |  | well *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |

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

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They stop to think when unsure, a careful habit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands:t10:o4:1
# text = They stop to think when unsure, a careful habit
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	unsure	unsure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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