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title: Okay real talk, what's the sis's excuse for wanting bear's milk? — Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Okay real talk, what's the sis's excuse for wanting bear's milk? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1104 «Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 10: the Tsar milks three wild mothers and gains new companions while the serpent's plan fails» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depen
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# Test 7 · ★ · Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 10: t…

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Okay real talk, what's the sis's excuse for wanting bear's milk?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Okay real talk, excuse · **What happens:** be, want · **To what, where:** excuse, milk

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1104 «Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 10: the Tsar milks three wild mothers and gains new companions while the serpent's plan fails» 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/1104-pg29672-part10/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:t7:1
# text = Okay real talk, what's the sis's excuse for wanting bear's milk?
1	Okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sis	sis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	excuse	excuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Okay real talk | the sis's excuse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | gerund | the sis's excuse *not said here* | bear's milk |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot milk=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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She dreamed it would heal her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:t7:o1:1
# text = She dreamed it would heal her
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	heal	heal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dream** | past | She |  |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **heal** | would | it | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To heal her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:t7:o2:1
# text = To heal her
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	heal	heal	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A dream

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:t7:o3:1
# text = A dream
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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She thought it would make her well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:t7:o4:1
# text = She thought it would make her well
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | She |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | would | it | her *= she* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material she=Product |

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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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