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title: Why are tens of millions of donkeys still working today? — Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules · tree and pragmatics
description: Why are tens of millions of donkeys still working today? Test 10 of lesson 145 «Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules» 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 · Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules

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Why are tens of millions of donkeys still working today?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** tens · **What happens:** work

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This is test 10 of lesson 145 «Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules» 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/145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules:t10:1
# text = Why are tens of millions of donkeys still working today?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
3	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present · progressive | tens of millions of donkeys |  |  |  | still; today |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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 {#o1}

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They race on special tracks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules:t10:o1:1
# text = They race on special tracks
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	race	race	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tracks	track	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **race** | present | They |  |  | special tracks |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on track=Trajectory |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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They carry water, crops and firewood in many places

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules:t10:o2:1
# text = They carry water, crops and firewood in many places
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	firewood	firewood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | present | They | water and crops and firewood |  | many places |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Value in place=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They are used to herd cattle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules:t10:o3:1
# text = They are used to herd cattle
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	herd	herd	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · passive |  | They |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **herd** | to-infinitive |  | cattle |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cattle=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They pull every car in the desert

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules:t10:o4:1
# text = They pull every car in the desert
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | present | They | every car |  | the desert |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=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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