--- title: did the farmer's son help or nah? — Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Y… · tree and pragmatics description: did the farmer's son help or nah? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 377 «Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones: the farmer must cut his wheat himself, so the larks fly away» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/377-pg19994-part16/t6/) [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 for Children, The Lark and Her Y…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/377-pg19994-part16/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones: the farme… did the farmer's son help or nah? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** farmer · **What happens:** do, help · **To what, where:** son help This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 377 «Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones: the farmer must cut his wheat himself, so the larks fly away» 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/377-pg19994-part16/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:377-pg19994-part16:t6:1 # text = did the farmer's son help or nah? 1 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 farmer farmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 nah nah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | the farmer's son help | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **help** | | the farmer | | | | | | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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} yeah, he fetched the rope, bro ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:377-pg19994-part16:t6:o1:1 # text = yeah, he fetched the rope, bro 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 fetched fetch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fetch** | past | he | the rope and bro | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} helped cut the grain, bro ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:377-pg19994-part16:t6:o2:1 # text = helped cut the grain, bro 1 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | past | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **cut** | infinitive | | the grain and bro | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset grain=Product | ### Option 3 {#o3} nah, he was napping, bro ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:377-pg19994-part16:t6:o3:1 # text = nah, he was napping, bro 1 nah nah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 napping nap VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nap** | past · progressive | he | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} nah, just watched ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:377-pg19994-part16:t6:o4:1 # text = nah, just watched 1 nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 just just ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 watched watch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | participle | | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | **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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