--- title: Wait, what's the shift even for? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Unluc… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, what's the shift even for? Test 9 · ★ 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 question and of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1111-pg29672-part17/t9/) [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 Story of Unluc…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1111-pg29672-part17/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, part 17:… Wait, what's the shift even for? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** shift This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1111-pg29672-part17:t9:1 # text = Wait, what's the shift even for? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 shift shift NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 even even ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | | the shift | | | | | tree rules | 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} Nobody can grab you ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1111-pg29672-part17:t9:o1:1 # text = Nobody can grab you 1 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 grab grab VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grab** | can | Nobody | you | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Keeps you warm ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1111-pg29672-part17:t9:o2:1 # text = Keeps you warm 1 Keeps keep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} It makes you swift ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1111-pg29672-part17:t9:o3:1 # text = It makes you swift 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 swift swift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | It | you | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **swift** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} It keeps you dry ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1111-pg29672-part17:t9:o4:1 # text = It keeps you dry 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | It | you | | | | dry *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | **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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