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title: Was his face all pigs' eyes and that, sus? — Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was his face all pigs' eyes and that, sus? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1790 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls Jem a dwarf, father forgets him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice wa
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# Test 8 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls…

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Was his face all pigs' eyes and that, sus?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** his

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1790 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls Jem a dwarf, father forgets him» 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/1790-pg641-part41/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1790-pg641-part41:t8:1
# text = Was his face all pigs' eyes and that, sus?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  | 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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all pigs' eyes, rather sus, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1790-pg641-part41:t8:o1:1
# text = all pigs' eyes, rather sus, mate
1	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	sus	suspect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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like pigs' eyes and a snout

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1790-pg641-part41:t8:o2:1
# text = like pigs' eyes and a snout
1	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	snout	snout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	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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like pigs' eyes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1790-pg641-part41:t8:o3:1
# text = like pigs' eyes
1	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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like hogs' eyes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1790-pg641-part41:t8:o4:1
# text = like hogs' eyes
1	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	hogs	hog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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