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title: What did the goatherd do, the cheeky git? — Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a M… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the goatherd do, the cheeky git? Test 10 · ★ 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 option; Mova
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# Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold i…

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What did the goatherd do, the cheeky git?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** goatherd · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** goatherd

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This is test 10 · ★ 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t10:1
# text = What did the goatherd do, the cheeky git?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	goatherd	goatherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the goatherd and the cheeky git |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goatherd=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | present | the goatherd and the cheeky git *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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Kicked it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t10:o1:1
# text = Kicked it
1	Kicked	kick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick** | past |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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

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Chucked a stone and snapped its horn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t10:o2:1
# text = Chucked a stone and snapped its horn
1	Chucked	chuck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	snapped	snap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chuck** | participle |  | a stone |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 2 | **snap** | past |  | stone's horn |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horn=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Chucked a rock and cut it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t10:o3:1
# text = Chucked a rock and cut it
1	Chucked	chuck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chuck** | participle |  | a rock |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme |
| 2 | **cut** | infinitive |  | rock |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hit it with a stick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t10:o4:1
# text = Hit it with a stick
1	Hit	hit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | with a stick | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with stick=Instrument |

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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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