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title: Which creature assists Tremsin in recovering the coral necklace? — Russian Folk-Tales, Tremsin and the Bi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which creature assists Tremsin in recovering the coral necklace? Exam question 2 of lesson 1109 «Russian Folk-Tales, Tremsin and the Bird Zhar, part 15: the impossible sea task» 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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# Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, Tremsin and the Bird Zhar, part 15: th…

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Which creature assists Tremsin in recovering the coral necklace?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** creature · **What happens:** assist, recover · **To what, where:** Tremsin, coral necklace

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1109 «Russian Folk-Tales, Tremsin and the Bird Zhar, part 15: the impossible sea task» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1109-pg29672-part15/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1109-pg29672-part15:e2:1
# text = Which creature assists Tremsin in recovering the coral necklace?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	assists	assist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	recovering	recover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	coral	coral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	necklace	necklace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assist** | present | which creature |  | Tremsin |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tremsin=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **recover** | gerund | which creature *not said here* | the coral necklace |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent necklace=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 gull with her chicks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1109-pg29672-part15:e2:o1:1
# text = a gull with her chicks
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gull	gull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	chicks	chick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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 crab with her young

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1109-pg29672-part15:e2:o2:1
# text = a crab with her young
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	young	young	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a crab

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1109-pg29672-part15:e2:o3:1
# text = a crab
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crab	crab	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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a fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1109-pg29672-part15:e2:o4:1
# text = a fish
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fish	fish	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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