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title: Bruh, what was the milkmaid's cow kicking over? — Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruh, what was the milkmaid's cow kicking over? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1609 «Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country, part 24: the friends climb a china wall and meet the china people» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 2 · ★ · Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country, part 24: the frien…

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Bruh, what was the milkmaid's cow kicking over?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cow · **What happens:** be, kick over · **To what, where:** cow

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1609 «Wizard of Oz, The Dainty China Country, part 24: the friends climb a china wall and meet the china people» 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/1609-pg55-part24/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1609-pg55-part24:t2:1
# text = Bruh, what was the milkmaid's cow kicking over?
1	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	milkmaid	milkmaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	kicking	kick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	over	over	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the milkmaid's cow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **kick over** | gerund | the milkmaid's cow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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Everything in the barn and the milkmaid too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1609-pg55-part24:t2:o1:1
# text = Everything in the barn and the milkmaid too
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	milkmaid	milkmaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The stool, the pail, the cat and the milkmaid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1609-pg55-part24:t2:o2:1
# text = The stool, the pail, the cat and the milkmaid
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stool	stool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pail	pail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	milkmaid	milkmaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The stool, the pail and the milkmaid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1609-pg55-part24:t2:o3:1
# text = The stool, the pail and the milkmaid
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stool	stool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pail	pail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	milkmaid	milkmaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The gate, the fence and the farmer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1609-pg55-part24:t2:o4:1
# text = The gate, the fence and the farmer
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	farmer	farmer	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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