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title: fr, what did the storm cut the corn down with? — Slavonic Myths, Elijah the Prophet and… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr, what did the storm cut the corn down with? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 484 «Slavonic Myths, Elijah the Prophet and Nicholas: a field, a sale, and two candles» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was rig
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# Test 10 · ★ · Slavonic Myths, Elijah the Prophet and Nicholas: a field,…

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fr, what did the storm cut the corn down with?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** fr, storm · **What happens:** do, cut down · **To what, where:** corn

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 484 «Slavonic Myths, Elijah the Prophet and Nicholas: a field, a sale, and two candles» 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/484-pg22373-part76/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:484-pg22373-part76:t10:1
# text = fr, what did the storm cut the corn down with?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	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	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | fr |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cut down** | past | the storm | the corn |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset corn=Product |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Like a knife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:484-pg22373-part76:t10:o1:1
# text = Like a knife
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Like a sickle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:484-pg22373-part76:t10:o2:1
# text = Like a sickle
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sickle	sickle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Like a sharp knife through the wet stalks of rye and wheat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:484-pg22373-part76:t10:o3:1
# text = Like a sharp knife through the wet stalks of rye and wheat
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	stalks	stalk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	rye	rye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Like a scythe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:484-pg22373-part76:t10:o4:1
# text = Like a scythe
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	scythe	scythe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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