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title: Bruv, what did the old lady sniff at for ages? — Aesop's Fables, The Lion, the Bear, an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, what did the old lady sniff at for ages? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 142 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox: a sly Fox steals a kid while two beasts lie wounded» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox: a sly Fox…

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Bruv, what did the old lady sniff at for ages?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** old lady sniff

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 142 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox: a sly Fox steals a kid while two beasts lie wounded» 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/142-pg11339-part12/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:142-pg11339-part12:t12:1
# text = Bruv, what did the old lady sniff at for ages?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	sniff	sniff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	nmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the old lady sniff |  |  | for ages | Bruv *vocative* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sniff=Eventuality |

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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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A wine-jar with nothing left in it at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:142-pg11339-part12:t12:o1:1
# text = A wine-jar with nothing left in it at all
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nmod	_	_
7	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  | jar |  | at all | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in it=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A big old wine-jar that was empty and dusty on the shelf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:142-pg11339-part12:t12:o2:1
# text = A big old wine-jar that was empty and dusty on the shelf
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	dusty	dusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | a big old wine jar |  |  | the shelf |  | empty *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | a big old wine jar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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An empty wine-jar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:142-pg11339-part12:t12:o3:1
# text = An empty wine-jar
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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An empty beer-mug

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:142-pg11339-part12:t12:o4:1
# text = An empty beer-mug
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	mug	mug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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