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title: what's the coral thing Nastasia wants? — Russian Folk-Tales, Tremsin and the Bi… · tree and pragmatics
description: what's the coral thing Nastasia wants? Test 8 · ★ 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 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Tremsin and the Bird Zhar, part 15: th…

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what's the coral thing Nastasia wants?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** coral thing, Nastasia · **What happens:** be, want · **To what, where:** coral thing

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1109-pg29672-part15:t8:1
# text = what's the coral thing Nastasia wants?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	coral	coral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	Nastasia	Nastasia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the coral thing |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | present | Nastasia | the coral thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=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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her gold ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1109-pg29672-part15:t8:o1:1
# text = her gold ring
1	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	gold	gold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ring	ring	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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her little coral necklace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1109-pg29672-part15:t8:o2:1
# text = her little coral necklace
1	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	coral	coral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	necklace	necklace	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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her small amber brooch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1109-pg29672-part15:t8:o3:1
# text = her small amber brooch
1	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	amber	amber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	brooch	brooch	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 silver comb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1109-pg29672-part15:t8:o4:1
# text = a silver comb
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	comb	comb	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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