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title: So what did the sack actually say, like, when trodden on? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Big Klaus and… · tree and pragmatics
description: So what did the sack actually say, like, when trodden on? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1728 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Big Klaus and Little Klaus, part 1: Little Klaus loses his horse, then tricks a farmer with a squeaking sack» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Big Klaus and Little Klaus, part 1…

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So what did the sack actually say, like, when trodden on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do, say, tread on · **To what, where:** sack · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1728 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Big Klaus and Little Klaus, part 1: Little Klaus loses his horse, then tricks a farmer with a squeaking sack» 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/1728-pg640-part52/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1728-pg640-part52:t9:1
# text = So what did the sack actually say, like, when trodden on?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
12	trodden	tread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the sack |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **tread on** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Squeak, squeak, loud as anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1728-pg640-part52:t9:o1:1
# text = Squeak, squeak, loud as anything
1	Squeak	squeak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	squeak	squeak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Squeal, squeal, loud as a pig

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1728-pg640-part52:t9:o2:1
# text = Squeal, squeal, loud as a pig
1	Squeal	squeal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	squeal	squeal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Squeak, squeak, loud as anything, woke the whole house up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1728-pg640-part52:t9:o3:1
# text = Squeak, squeak, loud as anything, woke the whole house up
1	Squeak	squeak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	squeak	squeak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake up** | past | Squeak and squeak | the whole house |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Squeak, squeak, squeak, loud as anything in the whole farmhouse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1728-pg640-part52:t9:o4:1
# text = Squeak, squeak, squeak, loud as anything in the whole farmhouse
1	Squeak	squeak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	squeak	squeak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	squeak	squeak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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

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