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title: Bruv, what did the wolves do to the colt? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Unluc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, what did the wolves do to the colt? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1111 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, part 17: the Serpent's three kisses, and Daniel's lucky gifts from a serpent-lady» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, part 17:…

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Bruv, what did the wolves do to the colt?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wolves · **What happens:** do

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1111 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, part 17: the Serpent's three kisses, and Daniel's lucky gifts from a serpent-lady» 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/1111-pg29672-part17/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1111-pg29672-part17:t3:1
# text = Bruv, what did the wolves do to the colt?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | Bruv *vocative* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | the wolves |  |  |  |  | to the colt | vn act-114-1 «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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Ran it off the road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1111-pg29672-part17:t3:o1:1
# text = Ran it off the road
1	Ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past |  | it |  | the road |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme off road=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Tore it to pieces in the forest at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1111-pg29672-part17:t3:o2:1
# text = Tore it to pieces in the forest at night
1	Tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tore** | past |  | it |  | the forest | night | to pieces | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ate the colt's flesh and left only the bones behind in the snow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1111-pg29672-part17:t3:o3:1
# text = Ate the colt's flesh and left only the bones behind in the snow
1	Ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past |  | the colt's flesh |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient |
| 2 | **leave** | past |  |  |  |  |  | in the snow *result*; behind *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in snow=Result |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Tore it to pieces

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1111-pg29672-part17:t3:o4:1
# text = Tore it to pieces
1	Tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tore** | past |  | it |  |  |  | to pieces | tree rules |

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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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