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title: ngl, what did the bear promise the old man, like, for real? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Straw-Stuffed… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl, what did the bear promise the old man, like, for real? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1114 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Straw-Stuffed Ox: the old couple trap the bear, wolf, fox and hare and grow rich» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Straw-Stuffed Ox: the old couple t…

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ngl, what did the bear promise the old man, like, for real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ngl · **What happens:** promise · **To what, where:** old man

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1114 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Straw-Stuffed Ox: the old couple trap the bear, wolf, fox and hare and grow rich» 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/1114-pg29672-part20/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1114-pg29672-part20:t3:1
# text = ngl, what did the bear promise the old man, like, for real?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · do-support | ngl |  | the old man |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent man=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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milk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1114-pg29672-part20:t3:o1:1
# text = milk
1	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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figs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1114-pg29672-part20:t3:o2:1
# text = figs
1	figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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berries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1114-pg29672-part20:t3:o3:1
# text = berries
1	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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honey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1114-pg29672-part20:t3:o4:1
# text = honey
1	honey	honey	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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