--- title: Gross, why did the Farmer leave his plough? — Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Ea… · tree and pragmatics description: Gross, why did the Farmer leave his plough? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 157 «Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogue, a proud horse and other short tales» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/157-pg11339-part27/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/) / [Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Ea…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/157-pg11339-part27/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogu… Gross, why did the Farmer leave his plough? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Farmer · **What happens:** leave · **To what, where:** plough This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 157 «Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogue, a proud horse and other short tales» 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/157-pg11339-part27/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:157-pg11339-part27:t12:1 # text = Gross, why did the Farmer leave his plough? 1 Gross gross ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 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 Farmer Farmer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 plough plough NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past · do-support | the Farmer | Farmer's plough | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plough=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} To help his wife ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:157-pg11339-part27:t12:o1:1 # text = To help his wife 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 help help VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | to-infinitive | | | his wife | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Beneficiary | ### Option 2 {#o2} To eat ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:157-pg11339-part27:t12:o2:1 # text = To eat 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 eat eat VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} To sit by the Woman ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:157-pg11339-part27:t12:o3:1 # text = To sit by the Woman 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 sit sit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 by by ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | to-infinitive | | | | | | by the Woman | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by woman=Location | ### Option 4 {#o4} To rest ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:157-pg11339-part27:t12:o4:1 # text = To rest 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 rest rest VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rest** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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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