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title: Lol, what did the poor girl herd after the cows went missing? — Fairy Book, The Wounded Lion, part 34:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what did the poor girl herd after the cows went missing? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1645 «Fairy Book, The Wounded Lion, part 34: the sister wins the water of life, then a girl follows a wounded lion» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Wounded Lion, part 34: the sister wins the…

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Lol, what did the poor girl herd after the cows went missing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cows · **What happens:** do, go, miss · **To what, where:** poor girl herd

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1645 «Fairy Book, The Wounded Lion, part 34: the sister wins the water of life, then a girl follows a wounded lion» 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/1645-pg5615-part34/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1645-pg5615-part34:t6:1
# text = Lol, what did the poor girl herd after the cows went missing?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	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	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	missing	miss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the poor girl herd |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go** | past | the cows |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **miss** | gerund | the cows *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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cows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1645-pg5615-part34:t6:o1:1
# text = cows
1	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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asses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1645-pg5615-part34:t6:o2:1
# text = asses
1	asses	ass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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horses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1645-pg5615-part34:t6:o3:1
# text = horses
1	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the geese and the young pigs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1645-pg5615-part34:t6:o4:1
# text = the geese and the young pigs
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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