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title: Wait, what did the pig buy at the fair? — English Fairy Tales, The Three Little… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what did the pig buy at the fair? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1952 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Little Pigs: the wolf fails at three houses and ends up boiled in the pot» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Little Pigs: the wolf fails…

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Wait, what did the pig buy at the fair?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, pig · **What happens:** wait, buy · **To what, where:** fair

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1952 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Little Pigs: the wolf fails at three houses and ends up boiled in the pot» 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/1952-pg7439-part11/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1952-pg7439-part11:t4:1
# text = Wait, what did the pig buy at the fair?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fair	fair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **buy** | past · do-support | the pig |  |  | the fair |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent what=Theme at fair=Asset |

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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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a wooden bucket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1952-pg7439-part11:t4:o1:1
# text = a wooden bucket
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bucket	bucket	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 big new butter-churn and some pigs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1952-pg7439-part11:t4:o2:1
# text = a big new butter-churn and some pigs
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	churn	churn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a brass lamp

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1952-pg7439-part11:t4:o3:1
# text = a brass lamp
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a butter-churn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1952-pg7439-part11:t4:o4:1
# text = a butter-churn
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	churn	churn	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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