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title: Which gaff did the wolf huff and puff at and not blow down? — English Fairy Tales, The Three Little… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which gaff did the wolf huff and puff at and not blow down? Test 8 · ★ 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 o
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# Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Little Pigs: the wolf fails…

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Which gaff did the wolf huff and puff at and not blow down?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** gaff · **What happens:** do, puff, not blow down · **To what, where:** wolf huff

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1952-pg7439-part11:t8:1
# text = Which gaff did the wolf huff and puff at and not blow down?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	gaff	gaff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	huff	huff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	puff	puff	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which gaff | the wolf huff |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent huff=Eventuality |
| 2 | **puff** | present | which gaff *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 3 | **not** **blow down** | infinitive | which gaff *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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 stone barn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1952-pg7439-part11:t8:o1:1
# text = the stone barn
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	barn	barn	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 straw

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1952-pg7439-part11:t8:o2:1
# text = the straw
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	straw	straw	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 brick house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1952-pg7439-part11:t8:o3:1
# text = the brick house
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	house	house	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 wood house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1952-pg7439-part11:t8:o4:1
# text = the wood house
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	house	house	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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