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title: the countryman had a pig stashed in his smock, lol — Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the H… · tree and pragmatics
description: the countryman had a pig stashed in his smock, lol Test 10 · ★ of lesson 143 «Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps and the Tortoise wins the race» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps…

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the countryman had a pig stashed in his smock, lol

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** countryman · **What happens:** have, stash · **To what, where:** pig, smock

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 143 «Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps and the Tortoise wins the race» 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/143-pg11339-part13/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:t10:1
# text = the countryman had a pig stashed in his smock, lol
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	countryman	countryman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	stashed	stash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	smock	smock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the countryman | a pig |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Patient |
| 2 | **stash** | participle |  | a pig *not said here* |  | countryman's smock |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in smock=Destination |

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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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Nah, a big rabbit, bare cheeky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:t10:o1:1
# text = Nah, a big rabbit, bare cheeky
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, a young porker, bare cheeky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:t10:o2:1
# text = Yeah, a young porker, bare cheeky
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	porker	porker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, a goose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:t10:o3:1
# text = Nah, a goose
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, a young lamb, dead cheeky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:t10:o4:1
# text = Yeah, a young lamb, dead cheeky
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	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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