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title: Is it sus that the hay-cock bursts into flames? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Unluc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Is it sus that the hay-cock bursts into flames? Test 4 · ★ 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 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, part 17:…

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Is it sus that the hay-cock bursts into flames?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** it, hay cock · **What happens:** be, burst · **To what, where:** flames

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1111-pg29672-part17:t4:1
# text = Is it sus that the hay-cock bursts into flames?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sus	suspect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	bursts	burst	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | suspect *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **burst** | present | the hay cock |  |  | flames |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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Nah, a fox was hiding in it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1111-pg29672-part17:t4:o1:1
# text = Nah, a fox was hiding in it
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past · progressive | a fox |  |  | it |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nah, just smoke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1111-pg29672-part17:t4:o2:1
# text = Nah, just smoke
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, just hay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1111-pg29672-part17:t4:o3:1
# text = No, just hay
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Yeah, a serpent was inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1111-pg29672-part17:t4:o4:1
# text = Yeah, a serpent was inside
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | a serpent |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | 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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