---
title: Where did the Lark build her gaff, in the wheat field? — Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where did the Lark build her gaff, in the wheat field? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 376 «Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the young Larks fear the reapers, but their mother says the wheat is not ready yet» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/376-pg19994-part15/t9/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 Lark and Her Young…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/376-pg19994-part15/) / t9

# Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Where did the Lark build her gaff, in the wheat field?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Lark · **What happens:** be, build · **To what, where:** gaff, wheat field

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 376 «Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the young Larks fear the reapers, but their mother says the wheat is not ready yet» 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/376-pg19994-part15/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:376-pg19994-part15:t9:1
# text = Where did the Lark build her gaff, in the wheat field?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Lark	Lark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	build	build	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	gaff	gaff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **build** | present | the Lark | Lark's gaff |  | the wheat field |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gaff=Product |

<!-- .note -->
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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, in a field of wheat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:376-pg19994-part15:t9:o1:1
# text = yeah, in a field of wheat
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, in the orchard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:376-pg19994-part15:t9:o2:1
# text = yeah, in the orchard
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	orchard	orchard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, in a field of wheat near the farm, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:376-pg19994-part15:t9:o3:1
# text = yeah, in a field of wheat near the farm, innit
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	near	near	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, by the old river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:376-pg19994-part15:t9:o4:1
# text = yeah, by the old river
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young…, test 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/376-pg19994-part15/t8/)
- next →: [Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young…, test 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/376-pg19994-part15/t10/)
- ↑ back to [Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the young Larks fear the reapers, but their mother says the wheat is not ready yet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/376-pg19994-part15/)