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title: Bro, what did the handkerchief turn into when waved? — Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did the handkerchief turn into when waved? Test 8 · ★ 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 dependency tree a
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# Test 8 · ★ · Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 10: t…

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Bro, what did the handkerchief turn into when waved?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bro · **What happens:** do, turn, wave · **To what, where:** handkerchief

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:t8:1
# text = Bro, what did the handkerchief turn into when waved?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	waved	wave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Bro | the handkerchief |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Eventuality |
| 2 | **turn** | present | Bro |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wave** | participle | Bro *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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A bridge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:t8:o1:1
# text = A bridge
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A path

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:t8:o2:1
# text = A path
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A wall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:t8:o3:1
# text = A wall
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A ship

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:t8:o4:1
# text = A ship
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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