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title: Lowkey, what was the donkey's job every day? — Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lowkey, what was the donkey's job every day? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 387 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8: a jealous donkey copies a pampered lapdog and gets beaten» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8: a jealous…

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Lowkey, what was the donkey's job every day?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lowkey · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** job

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 387 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8: a jealous donkey copies a pampered lapdog and gets beaten» 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/387-pg21-part8/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:387-pg21-part8:t4:1
# text = Lowkey, what was the donkey's job every day?
1	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Lowkey | the donkey's job |  |  | day |  | tree rules |

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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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plowing fields and carrying grain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:387-pg21-part8:t4:o1:1
# text = plowing fields and carrying grain
1	plowing	plow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
5	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plow** | gerund |  | fields |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent field=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund |  | grain |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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grinding corn and hauling wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:387-pg21-part8:t4:o2:1
# text = grinding corn and hauling wood
1	grinding	grind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	hauling	haul	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
5	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grind** | gerund |  | corn |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient |
| 2 | **haul** | gerund |  | wood |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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pulling carts and drawing water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:387-pg21-part8:t4:o3:1
# text = pulling carts and drawing water
1	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
2	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | gerund |  | carts |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme |
| 2 | **draw** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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grinding corn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:387-pg21-part8:t4:o4:1
# text = grinding corn
1	grinding	grind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grind** | gerund |  | corn |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient |

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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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