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title: bro why'd the little tsar keep running in and out? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar No… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro why'd the little tsar keep running in and out? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1105 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 11: the starling's warnings and the boiling water» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 11: the…

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bro why'd the little tsar keep running in and out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** little tsar · **What happens:** keep, run · **To what, where:** little tsar

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1105 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 11: the starling's warnings and the boiling water» 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/1105-pg29672-part11/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1105-pg29672-part11:t1:1
# text = bro why'd the little tsar keep running in and out?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	_
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tsar	tsar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present |  | the little tsar |  |  |  | bro *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | the little tsar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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cuz he was bored

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1105-pg29672-part11:t1:o1:1
# text = cuz he was bored
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he | cuz *not said here* |  |  |  | bored *property* | tree rules |

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

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cuz the sister kept making him poke the fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1105-pg29672-part11:t1:o2:1
# text = cuz the sister kept making him poke the fire
1	cuz	cuz	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	poke	poke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cuz** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | past | the cuz sister |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | the cuz sister *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **poke** | infinitive | him *= he* *not said here* | the fire |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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cuz the fire kept going out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1105-pg29672-part11:t1:o3:1
# text = cuz the fire kept going out
1	cuz	cuz	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cuz** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | past | the cuz fire |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go out** | gerund | the cuz fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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cuz he was hungry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1105-pg29672-part11:t1:o4:1
# text = cuz he was hungry
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he | cuz *not said here* |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |

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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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