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title: Bare sus, what did the Swineherd scrub off his face? — Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the Prince… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bare sus, what did the Swineherd scrub off his face? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1734 «Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the Prince shows his true self and the Princess is sent away to sing outside» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the Prince shows his true self…

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Bare sus, what did the Swineherd scrub off his face?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Swineherd · **What happens:** scrub off · **To what, where:** Bare sus

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1734 «Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the Prince shows his true self and the Princess is sent away to sing outside» 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/1734-pg640-part58/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1734-pg640-part58:t6:1
# text = Bare sus, what did the Swineherd scrub off his face?
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	scrub	scrub	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scrub off** | past · do-support | the Swineherd | Bare sus |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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the black and brown dirt from the whole yard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1734-pg640-part58:t6:o1:1
# text = the black and brown dirt from the whole yard
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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the brown mud and grime

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1734-pg640-part58:t6:o2:1
# text = the brown mud and grime
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	grime	grime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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the black and brown dirt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1734-pg640-part58:t6:o3:1
# text = the black and brown dirt
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	dirt	dirt	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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the black and brown dirt from the pigsty floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1734-pg640-part58:t6:o4:1
# text = the black and brown dirt from the pigsty floor
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	pigsty	pigsty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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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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