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title: Blud, who sent the three pigs off? — English Fairy Tales, The Three Little… · tree and pragmatics
description: Blud, who sent the three pigs off? Test 6 · ★ 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's cho
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# Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Little Pigs: the wolf fails…

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Blud, who sent the three pigs off?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Blud · **What happens:** send · **To what, where:** three pigs

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1952-pg7439-part11:t6:1
# text = Blud, who sent the three pigs off?
1	Blud	Blud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	off	off	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Blud | the three pigs |  |  |  | off *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=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 {#o1}

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a cow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1952-pg7439-part11:t6:o1:1
# text = a cow
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cow	cow	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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the pig

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1952-pg7439-part11:t6:o2:1
# text = the pig
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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the old sow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1952-pg7439-part11:t6:o3:1
# text = the old sow
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sow	sow	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 old goat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1952-pg7439-part11:t6:o4:1
# text = the old goat
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	goat	goat	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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