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title: Dude, what was actually in Little Claus's sack? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, what was actually in Little Claus's sack? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 869 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 80: Little Claus tricks the farmer and sells him the sexton in a chest» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 8…

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Dude, what was actually in Little Claus's sack?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dude · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** sack

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 869 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 80: Little Claus tricks the farmer and sells him the sexton in a chest» 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/869-pg27200-part80/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:t3:1
# text = Dude, what was actually in Little Claus's sack?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
5	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Dude and Little Claus's sack |  |  | Little Claus's sack |  | actually *property* | 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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A dried horse skin, cut from a dead mare last winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:t3:o1:1
# text = A dried horse skin, cut from a dead mare last winter
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
3	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **cut** | participle |  | a dried horse skin *not said here* |  |  |  | from a dead mare and last winter | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from mare=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A horse skin dried in the sun and wrapped up with string

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:t3:o2:1
# text = A horse skin dried in the sun and wrapped up with string
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | participle |  | a horse skin *not said here* |  | the sun |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **wrap up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with string | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with string=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A cured cow hide

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:t3:o3:1
# text = A cured cow hide
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	cured	cure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
3	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cure** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A dried horse skin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:t3:o4:1
# text = A dried horse skin
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
3	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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