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title: bro the dog wouldn't let the cows eat the hay, what was he being — Aesop's Fables, The Quack Frog, part 9… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro the dog wouldn't let the cows eat the hay, what was he being Test 10 · ★ of lesson 139 «Aesop's Fables, The Quack Frog, part 9: a run of short animal tales, each ending with a lesson» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Quack Frog, part 9: a run of short ani…

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bro the dog wouldn't let the cows eat the hay, what was he being

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dog, cows · **What happens:** not let, eat · **To what, where:** hay

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 139 «Aesop's Fables, The Quack Frog, part 9: a run of short animal tales, each ending with a lesson» 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/139-pg11339-part9/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:139-pg11339-part9:t10:1
# text = bro the dog wouldn't let the cows eat the hay, what was he being
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	appos	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **let** | would | the dog |  |  |  |  | bro *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | present | the cows | the hay |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Patient |

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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 selfish, greedy beast who would not share the hay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:139-pg11339-part9:t10:o1:1
# text = a selfish, greedy beast who would not share the hay
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	selfish	selfish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **share** | would | a selfish greedy beast | the hay |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a selfish, greedy beast who would not share his food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:139-pg11339-part9:t10:o2:1
# text = a selfish, greedy beast who would not share his food
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	selfish	selfish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **share** | would | a selfish greedy beast | his food |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a selfish beast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:139-pg11339-part9:t10:o3:1
# text = a selfish beast
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	selfish	selfish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a greedy fool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:139-pg11339-part9:t10:o4:1
# text = a greedy fool
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fool	fool	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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**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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