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title: Which of the following did the Farmer place upon his newly sown plow… — Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Sto… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which of the following did the Farmer place upon his newly sown plowlands? Exam question 1 of lesson 385 «Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork: a Farmer's nets catch a Stork among Cranes, and his pleas fail.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Exam question 1 · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork: a Farmer's nets…

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Which of the following did the Farmer place upon his newly sown plowlands?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** follow, sow

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 385 «Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork: a Farmer's nets catch a Stork among Cranes, and his pleas fail.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/385-pg21-part6/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:385-pg21-part6:e1:1
# text = Which of the following did the Farmer place upon his newly sown plowlands?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	case	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	sown	sow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	plowlands	plowland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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nets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:385-pg21-part6:e1:o1:1
# text = nets
1	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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fences

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:385-pg21-part6:e1:o2:1
# text = fences
1	fences	fence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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snares

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:385-pg21-part6:e1:o3:1
# text = snares
1	snares	snare	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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nets and fences all over the plowlands

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:385-pg21-part6:e1:o4:1
# text = nets and fences all over the plowlands
1	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	fences	fence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	plowlands	plowland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	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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