---
title: lowkey the horse, ox and dog gave the man the best life stages right? — Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Do… · tree and pragmatics
description: lowkey the horse, ox and dog gave the man the best life stages right? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 398 «Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Doves: a jackdaw in white paint sneaks in among the doves, and a run of short fables follows» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree an
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/398-pg21-part19/t11/)

<!-- 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 Jackdaw and the Do…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/398-pg21-part19/) / t11

# Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Doves: a jackdaw in wh…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
lowkey the horse, ox and dog gave the man the best life stages right?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** lowkey · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** best life stages, man

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 398 «Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Doves: a jackdaw in white paint sneaks in among the doves, and a run of short fables follows» 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/398-pg21-part19/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:398-pg21-part19:t11:1
# text = lowkey the horse, ox and dog gave the man the best life stages right?
1	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
13	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	stages	stage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
15	right	right	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | lowkey | the best life stages | the man |  |  | right *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient stage=Theme |

<!-- .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 -->
horse gave youth, dog gave old age

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:398-pg21-part19:t11:o1:1
# text = horse gave youth, dog gave old age
1	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | horse | youth |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | dog | old age |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
horse gave strength, ox gave labour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:398-pg21-part19:t11:o2:1
# text = horse gave strength, ox gave labour
1	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | horse | strength |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | ox | labour |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent labour=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
horse gave youth, ox gave manhood, dog gave old age

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:398-pg21-part19:t11:o3:1
# text = horse gave youth, ox gave manhood, dog gave old age
1	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	manhood	manhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | horse | youth |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | ox | manhood |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manhood=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | dog | old age |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
ox gave manhood, dog gave wisdom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:398-pg21-part19:t11:o4:1
# text = ox gave manhood, dog gave wisdom
1	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	manhood	manhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | ox | manhood |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manhood=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | dog | wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Theme |

<!-- 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 Jackdaw and the Do…, test 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/398-pg21-part19/t10/)
- next →: [Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Do…, test 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/398-pg21-part19/t12/)
- ↑ back to [Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Doves: a jackdaw in white paint sneaks in among the doves, and a run of short fables follows](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/398-pg21-part19/)