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title: What were the cows' ears like, mate? — Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures… · tree and pragmatics
description: What were the cows' ears like, mate? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1070 «Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures of Mongan, part 38: Mongan is raised, avenges his father, and sees the white cows» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 10 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures of Mongan, part 38:…

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What were the cows' ears like, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** ears

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1070 «Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures of Mongan, part 38: Mongan is raised, avenges his father, and sees the white cows» of the books 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/books/1070-pg2892-part38/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1070-pg2892-part38:t10:1
# text = What were the cows' ears like, mate?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the cows's ears |  |  |  | like mate | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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proper red, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1070-pg2892-part38:t10:o1:1
# text = proper red, mate
1	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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green

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1070-pg2892-part38:t10:o2:1
# text = green
1	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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brown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1070-pg2892-part38:t10:o3:1
# text = brown
1	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

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red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1070-pg2892-part38:t10:o4:1
# text = red
1	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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