--- title: What was up with Tom's crops, bare bad? — More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brow… · tree and pragmatics description: What was up with Tom's crops, bare bad? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 240 «More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp out and is cursed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/240-pg14241-part7/t8/) [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/) / [More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brow…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/240-pg14241-part7/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp… What was up with Tom's crops, bare bad? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 240 «More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp out and is cursed» 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/240-pg14241-part7/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:240-pg14241-part7:t8:1 # text = What was up with Tom's crops, bare bad? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 crops crop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | | | | | | with Tom's crops | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | 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} they got eaten ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:240-pg14241-part7:t8:o1:1 # text = they got eaten 1 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 got get AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past · passive | | they | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ### Option 2 {#o2} they grew well ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:240-pg14241-part7:t8:o2:1 # text = they grew well 1 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | they | | | | | well *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} they rotted ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:240-pg14241-part7:t8:o3:1 # text = they rotted 1 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 rotted rot VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rot** | past | they | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} they rotted in the fields that autumn ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:240-pg14241-part7:t8:o4:1 # text = they rotted in the fields that autumn 1 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 rotted rot VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 det _ _ 7 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:unmarked _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rot** | past | they | | | the fields that autumn | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | **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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