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title: the uncles called him what, ngl? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Tsarivna Posse… · tree and pragmatics
description: the uncles called him what, ngl? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1108 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Tsarivna Possessed: the youth outwits the unclean spirit and wins the Tsar's daughter» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Tsarivna Possessed: the youth outw…

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the uncles called him what, ngl?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** uncles · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** him · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1108 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Tsarivna Possessed: the youth outwits the unclean spirit and wins the Tsar's daughter» 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/1108-pg29672-part14/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1108-pg29672-part14:t12:1
# text = the uncles called him what, ngl?
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	uncles	uncle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	ngl	ngl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | the uncles | him *= he* |  |  |  | ngl *obl* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme what=Result |

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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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Lazy dreamer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1108-pg29672-part14:t12:o1:1
# text = Lazy dreamer
1	Lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	dreamer	dreamer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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A simpleton

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1108-pg29672-part14:t12:o2:1
# text = A simpleton
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	simpleton	simpleton	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 fool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1108-pg29672-part14:t12:o3:1
# text = A fool
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fool	fool	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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Little idiot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1108-pg29672-part14:t12:o4:1
# text = Little idiot
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	idiot	idiot	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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