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title: What got him so wasted he forgot about the ram? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Wind and the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: What got him so wasted he forgot about the ram? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1099 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Wind and the Sack: a ram that scatters money» 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 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Wind and the Sack: a ram that scat…

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What got him so wasted he forgot about the ram?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** get, waste, forget · **To what, where:** him

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1099 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Wind and the Sack: a ram that scatters money» 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/1099-pg29672-part5/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1099-pg29672-part5:t6:1
# text = What got him so wasted he forgot about the ram?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wasted	waste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ram	ram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past |  | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **waste** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **forget** | past | he |  |  |  |  | about the ram | 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 {#o1}

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Cups of cider and ale

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1099-pg29672-part5:t6:o1:1
# text = Cups of cider and ale
1	Cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	cider	cider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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Pot after pot of mead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1099-pg29672-part5:t6:o2:1
# text = Pot after pot of mead
1	Pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	mead	mead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Pot after pot of mead, poured by the Jews at their big table

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1099-pg29672-part5:t6:o3:1
# text = Pot after pot of mead, poured by the Jews at their big table
1	Pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	mead	mead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour** | participle · passive | the Jews | Pot after pot of mead |  | Jews's big table |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Pot after pot of mead that the Jews kept pouring for him all night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1099-pg29672-part5:t6:o4:1
# text = Pot after pot of mead that the Jews kept pouring for him all night
1	Pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	mead	mead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | the Jews | mead |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pour** | gerund | mead *not said here* |  |  |  | night | for him *= he* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary |

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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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