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title: Bro, what did the cow do when she came up? — Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypre… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did the cow do when she came up? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1207 «Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypress, part 8: the prince wins a wish and the king starts his tale» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypress, part 8: the prin…

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Bro, what did the cow do when she came up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bro · **What happens:** do, come up · **To what, where:** cow

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1207 «Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypress, part 8: the prince wins a wish and the king starts his tale» 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/1207-pg3282-part8/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1207-pg3282-part8:t7:1
# text = Bro, what did the cow do when she came up?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	up	up	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Bro | the cow |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | present | Bro |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come up** | past | Bro |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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Grazed on the grass, then went back into the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1207-pg3282-part8:t7:o1:1
# text = Grazed on the grass, then went back into the sea
1	Grazed	graze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **graze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | on the grass | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on grass=Patient |
| 2 | **go back** | past |  |  |  | the sea | then |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Grazed, then went back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1207-pg3282-part8:t7:o2:1
# text = Grazed, then went back
1	Grazed	graze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **graze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go back** | past |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Grazed a while, sang a song, then went back down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1207-pg3282-part8:t7:o3:1
# text = Grazed a while, sang a song, then went back down
1	Grazed	graze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **graze** | past |  |  |  |  | while |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past |  | a song |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 3 | **go back** | past |  |  |  |  | then | down *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Drank, then swam away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1207-pg3282-part8:t7:o4:1
# text = Drank, then swam away
1	Drank	Drank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim away** | past | Drank |  |  |  | then | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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