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title: How did Little Claus make the sack go squeak? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus a… · tree and pragmatics
description: How did Little Claus make the sack go squeak? Test 5 · ★ 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 questi
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 8…

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How did Little Claus make the sack go squeak?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Little, you · **What happens:** be, make, go · **To what, where:** sack, squeak

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:t5:1
# text = How did Little Claus make the sack go squeak?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	squeak	squeak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | how *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | Little | the sack |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sack=Product |
| 3 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* | squeak |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location squeak=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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He stomped on it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:t5:o1:1
# text = He stomped on it
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stomped	stomp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stomp** | past | He |  |  | it |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He pinched a mouse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:t5:o2:1
# text = He pinched a mouse
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pinched	pinch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pinch** | past | He | a mouse |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He rubbed it hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:t5:o3:1
# text = He rubbed it hard
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub** | past | He | it |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He stomped on it with his boots and a mouse inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:t5:o4:1
# text = He stomped on it with his boots and a mouse inside
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stomped	stomp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stomp** | past | He |  |  | it |  | with his boots and a mouse; inside *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory |

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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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