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title: Ngl, what did the she-hare promise him? — Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, what did the she-hare promise him? Test 9 · ★ 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 and pragmatics
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# Test 9 · ★ · Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 10: t…

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Ngl, what did the she-hare promise him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ngl · **What happens:** do, promise · **To what, where:** she hare, hare

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:t9:1
# text = Ngl, what did the she-hare promise him?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	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	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Ngl | the she hare |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Eventuality |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | infinitive | Ngl *not said here* |  | hare |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=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 {#o1}

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A hare

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:t9:o1:1
# text = A hare
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hare	hare	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 kit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:t9:o2:1
# text = A kit
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kit	kit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A leveret

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:t9:o3:1
# text = A leveret
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	leveret	leveret	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 fox-cub

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:t9:o4:1
# text = A fox-cub
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	cub	cub	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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