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title: Who was the peasant with the goats, anyway? — Olive Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was the peasant with the goats, anyway? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1906 «Olive Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1: Simon buys a mule that three rogues swear is a donkey» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 11 · ★ · Olive Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1: Simon buys a mule…

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Who was the peasant with the goats, anyway?

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

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1906 «Olive Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1: Simon buys a mule that three rogues swear is a donkey» 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/1906-pg7277-part43/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1906-pg7277-part43:t11:1
# text = Who was the peasant with the goats, anyway?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the peasant |  |  |  | with the goats | 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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Simon's cousin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1906-pg7277-part43:t11:o1:1
# text = Simon's cousin
1	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A shepherd from the village nearby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1906-pg7277-part43:t11:o2:1
# text = A shepherd from the village nearby
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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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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A bloke from the village nearby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1906-pg7277-part43:t11:o3:1
# text = A bloke from the village nearby
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A farmer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1906-pg7277-part43:t11:o4:1
# text = A farmer
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farmer	farmer	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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**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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