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title: field's full of cows with babies, short cut through? — Farm animals and horses · tree and pragmatics
description: field's full of cows with babies, short cut through? Test 13 of lesson 28 «Farm animals and horses» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 13 · Farm animals and horses

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field's full of cows with babies, short cut through?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** cut

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This is test 13 of lesson 28 «Farm animals and horses» of the everyday 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/everyday/28-farm-animals-and-horses/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:28-farm-animals-and-horses:t13:1
# text = field's full of cows with babies, short cut through?
1	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
10	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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Walk close to look at the calves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:28-farm-animals-and-horses:t13:o1:1
# text = Walk close to look at the calves
1	Walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	calves	calf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the calves | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at calf=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Throw sticks so they move

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:28-farm-animals-and-horses:t13:o2:1
# text = Throw sticks so they move
1	Throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | imperative | you *not said here* | sticks |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | present | sticks *= stick* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Run through the middle fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:28-farm-animals-and-horses:t13:o3:1
# text = Run through the middle fast
1	Run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the middle |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through middle=Trajectory |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Go round another way if you can

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:28-farm-animals-and-horses:t13:o4:1
# text = Go round another way if you can
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	round	round	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go round** | imperative | you *not said here* | another way |  |  |  | round *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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