Past Perfect

Mar 09, 2023 15:46

Babbel is currently confusing me with past perfect. If the verb doesn't imply movement, you use the conjugated form of haben; if there is movement or something you can't control, sein.

That all made perfect sense until the lesson had:
He drove the tractor through the field and worked a lot.
Babbel: Er ist mit dem Traktor über das Feld gefahren und hat viel gearbeitet.

Doesn't "worked a lot" imply movement? Why wouldn't the second half of the sentence be ist viel gearbeitet? Is undefined work, as in we don't know how the work was done, considered without movement? If our farmer had plowed the field would the verb have been a form of sein?
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