--- title: Mate, what nearly got lost for good? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Serpent's Wife… · tree and pragmatics description: Mate, what nearly got lost for good? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1110 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Serpent's Wife, part 16: Tremsin wins the herd and the Nastasia's riddle, then a labourer's wife turns out to be a serpent» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1110-pg29672-part16/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Russian Folk-Tales, The Serpent's Wife…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1110-pg29672-part16/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Serpent's Wife, part 16: Tremsin w… Mate, what nearly got lost for good? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** lose · **To what, where:** Mate This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1110 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Serpent's Wife, part 16: Tremsin wins the herd and the Nastasia's riddle, then a labourer's wife turns out to be a serpent» 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/1110-pg29672-part16/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1110-pg29672-part16:t10:1 # text = Mate, what nearly got lost for good? 1 Mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 4 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 got get AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 conj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | past · passive | | Mate | | | | for good; nearly *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality | 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} The sheaves he gathered in before the frost came ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1110-pg29672-part16:t10:o1:1 # text = The sheaves he gathered in before the frost came 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sheaves sheaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gathered gather VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 before before ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 frost frost NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gather** | past | he | the sheaves *not said here* | | the frost | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheaf=Theme | | 2 | **come** | past | the sheaves | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} His cow ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1110-pg29672-part16:t10:o2:1 # text = His cow 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} His whole farm and every single bit of his land ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1110-pg29672-part16:t10:o3:1 # text = His whole farm and every single bit of his land 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 6 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} His wife ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1110-pg29672-part16:t10:o4:1 # text = His wife 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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