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title: what sea sign does the horse talk about? — Russian Folk-Tales, Tremsin and the Bi… · tree and pragmatics
description: what sea sign does the horse talk about? Test 12 · ★ 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; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Tremsin and the Bird Zhar, part 15: th…

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what sea sign does the horse talk about?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** horse · **What happens:** talk about

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This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1109-pg29672-part15:t12:1
# text = what sea sign does the horse talk about?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obl	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk about** | present · do-support | the horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «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 {#o1}

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a big red wave rolling toward the shore with a roar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1109-pg29672-part15:t12:o1:1
# text = a big red wave rolling toward the shore with a roar
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | gerund | a big red wave *not said here* |  |  | the shore |  | with a roar | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward shore=Trajectory |

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

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a big red wave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1109-pg29672-part15:t12:o2:1
# text = a big red wave
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wave	wave	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 small red wave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1109-pg29672-part15:t12:o3:1
# text = a small red wave
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wave	wave	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 big white wave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1109-pg29672-part15:t12:o4:1
# text = a big white wave
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wave	wave	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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