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title: what did the cow drink from? — A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the cow drink from? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 2059 «A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows a brindled cow until it lies down and he chooses a home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 11 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows…

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what did the cow drink from?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** cow drink

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2059 «A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows a brindled cow until it lies down and he chooses a home» 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/2059-pg976-part18/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2059-pg976-part18:t11:1
# text = what did the cow drink from?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the cow drink |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Eventuality |

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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 river by the village

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2059-pg976-part18:t11:o1:1
# text = a river by the village
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a wide silver river winding through the green valley near the hills

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2059-pg976-part18:t11:o2:1
# text = a wide silver river winding through the green valley near the hills
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	winding	wind	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	near	near	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wind** | gerund | a wide silver river *not said here* |  |  | the green valley |  | near the hills | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme through valley=Source near hill=Trajectory |

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

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a brook across the path

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2059-pg976-part18:t11:o3:1
# text = a brook across the path
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	across	across	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a shallow brook that flowed across the rocky path

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2059-pg976-part18:t11:o4:1
# text = a shallow brook that flowed across the rocky path
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	flowed	flow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	across	across	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flow** | past | a shallow brook |  |  | the rocky path |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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