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title: Yo, what was the wolf doin' by the shepherd's hut? — Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a M… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what was the wolf doin' by the shepherd's hut? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 373 «Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold is stolen, and a stranger gives strange advice» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold i…

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Yo, what was the wolf doin' by the shepherd's hut?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** wolf doin

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 373 «Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold is stolen, and a stranger gives strange advice» 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/373-pg19994-part12/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t1:1
# text = Yo, what was the wolf doin' by the shepherd's hut?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	doin	doin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the wolf doin |  |  |  | by the shepherd's hut | 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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Sniffin' at the bins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t1:o1:1
# text = Sniffin' at the bins
1	Sniffin	Sniffin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bins	bin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Lurkin' near the sheep pen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t1:o2:1
# text = Lurkin' near the sheep pen
1	Lurkin	Lurkin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	_
6	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Eyein' a sheep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t1:o3:1
# text = Eyein' a sheep
1	Eyein	Eyein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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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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Watchin' them scoff a roast lamb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t1:o4:1
# text = Watchin' them scoff a roast lamb
1	Watchin	Watchin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
4	scoff	scoff	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scoff** | infinitive | Watchin | a roast lamb |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamb=Theme |

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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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