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title: Sick, why'd the wife's hut go up so quick? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Serpent's Wife… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sick, why'd the wife's hut go up so quick? Test 8 · ★ 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 pragmat
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# Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Serpent's Wife, part 16: Tremsin w…

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Sick, why'd the wife's hut go up so quick?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hut · **What happens:** go up

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1110-pg29672-part16:t8:1
# text = Sick, why'd the wife's hut go up so quick?
1	Sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | infinitive | the wife's hut |  |  |  |  | quick *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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Good luck mostly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1110-pg29672-part16:t8:o1:1
# text = Good luck mostly
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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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 help, obviously

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1110-pg29672-part16:t8:o2:1
# text = Her help, obviously
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	obviously	obviously	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** |  | Her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He hired loads of mates from the village to speed it up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1110-pg29672-part16:t8:o3:1
# text = He hired loads of mates from the village to speed it up
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hired	hire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	speed	speed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hire** | past | He | loads of mates |  | the village |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent load=Theme from village=Source |
| 2 | **speed up** | to-infinitive | He *not said here* | village |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Her hard graft

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1110-pg29672-part16:t8:o4:1
# text = Her hard graft
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	graft	graft	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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