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title: Innit, which vat was boiling hot? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Serpent's Wife… · tree and pragmatics
description: Innit, which vat was boiling hot? Test 3 · ★ 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 of th
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# Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Serpent's Wife, part 16: Tremsin w…

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Innit, which vat was boiling hot?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Innit · **What happens:** boil

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1110-pg29672-part16:t3:1
# text = Innit, which vat was boiling hot?
1	Innit	Innit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	vat	vat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** | past · progressive | Innit |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The first vat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1110-pg29672-part16:t3:o1:1
# text = The first vat
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	vat	vat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The last

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1110-pg29672-part16:t3:o2:1
# text = The last
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The second one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1110-pg29672-part16:t3:o3:1
# text = The second one
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	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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Vat two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1110-pg29672-part16:t3:o4:1
# text = Vat two
1	Vat	vat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
```

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

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