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title: What was the butcher's pig chilling in? — Grimm's Household Tales, Hans in Luck,… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the butcher's pig chilling in? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 727 «Grimm's Household Tales, Hans in Luck, part 3: Hans trades his goose for a grindstone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, Hans in Luck, part 3: Hans trades…

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What was the butcher's pig chilling in?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** pig · **What happens:** be, chill

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 727 «Grimm's Household Tales, Hans in Luck, part 3: Hans trades his goose for a grindstone» 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/727-pg2591-part3/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:727-pg2591-part3:t5:1
# text = What was the butcher's pig chilling in?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	butcher	butcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
7	chilling	chill	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the butcher's pig |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **chill** | gerund | the butcher's pig *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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a straw bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:727-pg2591-part3:t5:o1:1
# text = a straw bed
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bed	bed	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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a cart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:727-pg2591-part3:t5:o2:1
# text = a cart
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a wheelbarrow in the market lane

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:727-pg2591-part3:t5:o3:1
# text = a wheelbarrow in the market lane
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wheelbarrow	wheelbarrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	lane	lane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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a wheelbarrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:727-pg2591-part3:t5:o4:1
# text = a wheelbarrow
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wheelbarrow	wheelbarrow	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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