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title: Wait, why did the shepherd leave the sheep on the grass? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, why did the shepherd leave the sheep on the grass? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1278 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the shepherd, then the Black Rogue hangs» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the…

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Wait, why did the shepherd leave the sheep on the grass?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, shepherd · **What happens:** wait, leave · **To what, where:** sheep, grass

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1278 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the shepherd, then the Black Rogue hangs» 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/1278-pg3454-part3/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t4:1
# text = Wait, why did the shepherd leave the sheep on the grass?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | past · do-support | the shepherd | the sheep |  | the grass |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme on grass=Location |

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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 {#o1}

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to fetch the muddy shoe he had dropped

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t4:o1:1
# text = to fetch the muddy shoe he had dropped
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	muddy	muddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fetch** | to-infinitive |  | the muddy shoe |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme |
| 2 | **drop** | past · perfect | he | the muddy shoe *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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to fetch the muddy shoe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t4:o2:1
# text = to fetch the muddy shoe
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	muddy	muddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fetch** | to-infinitive |  | the muddy shoe |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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to fetch the lost shoe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t4:o3:1
# text = to fetch the lost shoe
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fetch** | to-infinitive |  | the lost shoe |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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to fetch the muddy shoe from up the path

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t4:o4:1
# text = to fetch the muddy shoe from up the path
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	muddy	muddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fetch** | to-infinitive |  | the muddy shoe |  | the path |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme from path=Source |

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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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