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title: Why could a farmer with tame cows and goats stay in one village inst… — Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: h… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why could a farmer with tame cows and goats stay in one village instead of wandering? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 293 «Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 10 · ★★ · Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed anim…

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Why could a farmer with tame cows and goats stay in one village instead of wandering?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** farmer · **What happens:** stay, wonder · **To what, where:** one village

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 293 «Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals» 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/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals:t10:1
# text = Why could a farmer with tame cows and goats stay in one village instead of wandering?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	tame	tame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	16	mark	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | could | a farmer with tame cows and goats |  |  | one village |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | a farmer with tame cows and goats *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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Cows carried the whole village

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals:t10:o1:1
# text = Cows carried the whole village
1	Cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | Cows | the whole village |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Theme |

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

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Animals gave milk, meat and wool close to home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals:t10:o2:1
# text = Animals gave milk, meat and wool close to home
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Animals | milk and meat and wool |  |  |  | close *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Wild animals all left the area

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals:t10:o3:1
# text = Wild animals all left the area
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | Wild animals | the area |  |  |  | all *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Villages had no animals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals:t10:o4:1
# text = Villages had no animals
1	Villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	animals	animal	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** | past | Villages | no animals |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient |

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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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