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title: ngl, why did the dad sell the cows? — Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl, why did the dad sell the cows? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 705 «Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut-born herds, his wedding, and his flight from Eisenkopf» 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 5 · ★ · Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut-born herds, his wed…

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ngl, why did the dad sell the cows?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** dad · **What happens:** sell · **To what, where:** cows

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 705 «Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut-born herds, his wedding, and his flight from Eisenkopf» 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/705-pg2435-part45/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:705-pg2435-part45:t5:1
# text = ngl, why did the dad sell the cows?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | past · do-support | the dad | the cows |  |  |  | ngl *vocative* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=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 {#o1}

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for food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:705-pg2435-part45:t5:o1:1
# text = for food
1	for	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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to pay the old farm debts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:705-pg2435-part45:t5:o2:1
# text = to pay the old farm debts
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	pay	pay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	debts	debt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | to-infinitive |  | the old farm debts |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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to buy fields and gardens

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:705-pg2435-part45:t5:o3:1
# text = to buy fields and gardens
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	buy	buy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | to-infinitive |  | fields and gardens |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to pay debts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:705-pg2435-part45:t5:o4:1
# text = to pay debts
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	pay	pay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	debts	debt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | to-infinitive |  | debts |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset |

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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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