--- title: how'd they eat if they never sowed no wheat? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Rich Brother a… · tree and pragmatics description: how'd they eat if they never sowed no wheat? Test 12 · ★ 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 of each option; M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1101-pg29672-part7/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Russian Folk-Tales, The Rich Brother a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1101-pg29672-part7/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Rich Brother and the Poor Brother:… how'd they eat if they never sowed no wheat? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** they · **What happens:** eat, not sow · **To what, where:** wheat This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1101-pg29672-part7:t12:1 # text = how'd they eat if they never sowed no wheat? 1 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 'd 'd PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 sowed sow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 9 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 10 det _ _ 10 wheat wheat NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | they | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **sow** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | they | no wheat | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheat=Theme | 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} they had lots and lots to eat from the ram ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1101-pg29672-part7:t12:o1:1 # text = they had lots and lots to eat from the ram 1 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 ram ram NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | they | lots and lots | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient | | 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | they *not said here* | | | the ram | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from ram=Source | ### Option 2 {#o2} they had heaps of bread ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1101-pg29672-part7:t12:o2:1 # text = they had heaps of bread 1 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 heaps heap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | they | heaps of bread | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=Patient | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} they had lots and lots to eat ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1101-pg29672-part7:t12:o3:1 # text = they had lots and lots to eat 1 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | they | lots and lots | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient | | 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | they *not said here* | lots and lots *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} they had lots and lots to eat from a big sack of grain ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1101-pg29672-part7:t12:o4:1 # text = they had lots and lots to eat from a big sack of grain 1 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 sack sack NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | they | lots and lots | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient | | 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | they *not said here* | | | a big sack of grain | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from sack=Source | **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. 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