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title: what did she use to get the buffalo going again? — Africa Tales, The Rover of the Plain,… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did she use to get the buffalo going again? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1169 «Africa Tales, The Rover of the Plain, part 35: the girl brings the dead buffalo back to life, and her husband spies on her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 7 · ★ · Africa Tales, The Rover of the Plain, part 35: the girl br…

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what did she use to get the buffalo going again?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** she, buffalo · **What happens:** use, get, go · **To what, where:** buffalo

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1169 «Africa Tales, The Rover of the Plain, part 35: the girl brings the dead buffalo back to life, and her husband spies on her» 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/1169-pg3027-part35/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1169-pg3027-part35:t7:1
# text = what did she use to get the buffalo going again?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past · do-support | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | she *not said here* | the buffalo |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer buffalo=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | the buffalo *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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a sad song

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1169-pg3027-part35:t7:o1:1
# text = a sad song
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a reed, some oil, and a loud drum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1169-pg3027-part35:t7:o2:1
# text = a reed, some oil, and a loud drum
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	reed	reed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a bowl, deer fat, and a happy tune

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1169-pg3027-part35:t7:o3:1
# text = a bowl, deer fat, and a happy tune
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a horn, deer fat, and a sad song

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1169-pg3027-part35:t7:o4:1
# text = a horn, deer fat, and a sad song
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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