--- title: Bare sus, what did the mayor make the cow-herd cough up? — Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man a… · tree and pragmatics description: Bare sus, what did the mayor make the cow-herd cough up? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 751 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a wooden calf, a raven and a hidden Devil» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/751-pg2591-part27/t4/) [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/) / [Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/751-pg2591-part27/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a w… Bare sus, what did the mayor make the cow-herd cough up? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bare sus, cow herd · **What happens:** do, make, cough up · **To what, where:** mayor, cow herd This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 751 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a wooden calf, a raven and a hidden Devil» 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/751-pg2591-part27/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:751-pg2591-part27:t4:1 # text = Bare sus, what did the mayor make the cow-herd cough up? 1 Bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 sus sus NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 nsubj _ _ 5 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 mayor mayor NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 herd herd NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 13 cough cough VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Bare sus | the mayor | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mayor=Eventuality | | 2 | **make** | present | Bare sus | the cow herd | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **cough up** | infinitive | the cow herd *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} his cow for the herd ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:751-pg2591-part27:t4:o1:1 # text = his cow for the herd 1 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 herd herd NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} a fine brown cow for the lost calf ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:751-pg2591-part27:t4:o2:1 # text = a fine brown cow for the lost calf 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 calf calf NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} a goat for the calf ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:751-pg2591-part27:t4:o3:1 # text = a goat for the calf 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 goat goat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 calf calf NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} a cow for the calf ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:751-pg2591-part27:t4:o4:1 # text = a cow for the calf 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 calf calf NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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