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title: Wicked, what did the bloke buy after he cottoned on? — Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Burden… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wicked, what did the bloke buy after he cottoned on? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 137 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Burdens: a clever donkey tries to cheat his master with salt and sponges» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Burdens: a clever donkey t…

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Wicked, what did the bloke buy after he cottoned on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bloke · **What happens:** buy, cotton on

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 137 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Burdens: a clever donkey tries to cheat his master with salt and sponges» 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/137-pg11339-part7/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:137-pg11339-part7:t3:1
# text = Wicked, what did the bloke buy after he cottoned on?
1	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
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	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
8	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	cottoned	cotton	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | past · do-support | the bloke |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 2 | **cotton on** | past | bloke |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Lots of wool and cloth for the winter season

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:137-pg11339-part7:t3:o1:1
# text = Lots of wool and cloth for the winter season
1	Lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Some more bags

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:137-pg11339-part7:t3:o2:1
# text = Some more bags
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Bread and tea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:137-pg11339-part7:t3:o3:1
# text = Bread and tea
1	Bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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Loads more salt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:137-pg11339-part7:t3:o4:1
# text = Loads more salt
1	Loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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