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title: and the wolf was snarling and shouting, like the lamb's the bad guy — Aesop's Fables, The Wolf and the Lamb:… · tree and pragmatics
description: and the wolf was snarling and shouting, like the lamb's the bad guy Test 8 · ★ of lesson 367 «Aesop's Fables, The Wolf and the Lamb: a Wolf invents excuses to eat a Lamb» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wolf and the Lamb: a Wolf invents excu…

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and the wolf was snarling and shouting, like the lamb's the bad guy

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wolf · **What happens:** snarl, shout, be · **To what, where:** bad guy

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 367 «Aesop's Fables, The Wolf and the Lamb: a Wolf invents excuses to eat a Lamb» 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/367-pg19994-part6/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:367-pg19994-part6:t8:1
# text = and the wolf was snarling and shouting, like the lamb's the bad guy
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	snarling	snarl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snarl** | past · progressive | the wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | the wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the wolf *not said here* | the bad guy |  |  |  | like the lamb | 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 {#o1}

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he smiled at her warmly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:367-pg19994-part6:t8:o1:1
# text = he smiled at her warmly
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	warmly	warmly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smile** | past | he |  |  |  |  | at her *= she*; warmly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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he snarled at her angrily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:367-pg19994-part6:t8:o2:1
# text = he snarled at her angrily
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	snarled	snarl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snarl** | past | he |  |  |  |  | at her *= she*; angrily *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at she=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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he snarled and shouted at her, and she was the one blamed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:367-pg19994-part6:t8:o3:1
# text = he snarled and shouted at her, and she was the one blamed
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	snarled	snarl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
13	blamed	blame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snarl** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at her *= she* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | she | the one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **blame** | participle |  | the one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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he thanked her for the water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:367-pg19994-part6:t8:o4:1
# text = he thanked her for the water
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | he |  | her *= she* |  |  | for the water | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for water=Attribute |

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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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