--- title: what about the hearth-broom, did it blab? — Russian Folk-Tales, Little Tsar Novish… · tree and pragmatics description: what about the hearth-broom, did it blab? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1102 «Russian Folk-Tales, Little Tsar Novishny, part 8: the Tsar promises Satan what awaits him at home, and the children are hidden in a ditch» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1102-pg29672-part8/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Russian Folk-Tales, Little Tsar Novish…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1102-pg29672-part8/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Little Tsar Novishny, part 8: the Tsar… what about the hearth-broom, did it blab? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** broom · **What happens:** blab This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1102 «Russian Folk-Tales, Little Tsar Novishny, part 8: the Tsar promises Satan what awaits him at home, and the children are hidden in a ditch» 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/1102-pg29672-part8/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1102-pg29672-part8:t12:1 # text = what about the hearth-broom, did it blab? 1 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 10 obj _ _ 2 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 hearth hearth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 broom broom NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 blab blab VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blab** *speech: other* | past · do-support | broom | | | | | about the hearth broom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | 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} Yes ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1102-pg29672-part8:t12:o1:1 # text = Yes 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} No, it likes the Tsar ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1102-pg29672-part8:t12:o2:1 # text = No, it likes the Tsar 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 likes like VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Tsar Tsar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **like** | present | it | the Tsar | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tsar=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} No ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1102-pg29672-part8:t12:o3:1 # text = No 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Yes, it blabbed fast ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1102-pg29672-part8:t12:o4:1 # text = Yes, it blabbed fast 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 blabbed blab VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blab** *speech: other* | participle · passive | | it | | | | fast *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | **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. 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