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title: What animals did the poor brother take out to the plough? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Rich Brother a… · tree and pragmatics
description: What animals did the poor brother take out to the plough? Exam question 1 of lesson 1101 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Rich Brother and the Poor Brother: the henchmen in the drum settle the quarrel» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Rich Brother and the Poor Brother:…

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What animals did the poor brother take out to the plough?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** animals · **What happens:** do, take out · **To what, where:** poor brother

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1101 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Rich Brother and the Poor Brother: the henchmen in the drum settle the quarrel» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1101-pg29672-part7/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1101-pg29672-part7:e1:1
# text = What animals did the poor brother take out to the plough?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	plough	plough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | animals | the poor brother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take out** | infinitive | animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the plough | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the oxen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1101-pg29672-part7:e1:o1:1
# text = the oxen
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the mules

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1101-pg29672-part7:e1:o2:1
# text = the mules
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mules	mule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the goats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1101-pg29672-part7:e1:o3:1
# text = the goats
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the ram

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1101-pg29672-part7:e1:o4:1
# text = the ram
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ram	ram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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