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title: what's a pitch-burner even, lol — Russian Tales, The Straw Ox: a clever… · tree and pragmatics
description: what's a pitch-burner even, lol Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1113 «Russian Tales, The Straw Ox: a clever old woman tricks a hungry bear with a tar-smeared straw ox» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wro
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# Test 4 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Straw Ox: a clever old woman tricks a h…

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what's a pitch-burner even, lol

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** pitch burner

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1113 «Russian Tales, The Straw Ox: a clever old woman tricks a hungry bear with a tar-smeared straw ox» 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/1113-pg29672-part19/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1113-pg29672-part19:t4:1
# text = what's a pitch-burner even, lol
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	burner	burner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a pitch burner |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a dude who burns wood under dirt to make that black sticky tar for carts and boats

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1113-pg29672-part19:t4:o1:1
# text = a dude who burns wood under dirt to make that black sticky tar for carts and boats
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	burns	burn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
11	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tar	tar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | present | a dude | wood |  | dirt |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | a dude *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **tar** |  | that |  |  |  |  | for carts and boats | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a guy who spins flax all day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1113-pg29672-part19:t4:o2:1
# text = a guy who spins flax all day
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spins	spin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | present | a guy | flax |  |  | day |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flax=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a dude who burns wood to make that black sticky tar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1113-pg29672-part19:t4:o3:1
# text = a dude who burns wood to make that black sticky tar
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	burns	burn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
9	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tar	tar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | present | a dude | wood |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | a dude *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **tar** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a dude who burns straw to make ash

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1113-pg29672-part19:t4:o4:1
# text = a dude who burns straw to make ash
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	burns	burn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	ash	ash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | present | a dude | straw |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent straw=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | a dude *not said here* | ash |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ash=Product |

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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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