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title: In what manner was the murdered brother's body finally disposed of? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Three Brothers… · tree and pragmatics
description: In what manner was the murdered brother's body finally disposed of? Exam question 3 of lesson 1117 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Three Brothers: a hog eats the golden apples, and a flute tells the truth about a murder» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics 
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# Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Three Brothers: a hog eats the gol…

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In what manner was the murdered brother's body finally disposed of?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** murder, be, dispose · **To what, where:** body, manner

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1117 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Three Brothers: a hog eats the golden apples, and a flute tells the truth about a murder» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1117-pg29672-part23/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1117-pg29672-part23:e3:1
# text = In what manner was the murdered brother's body finally disposed of?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	murdered	murder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	disposed	dispose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **murder** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the murdered brother's body |  | what manner |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dispose** | participle |  | the murdered brother's body *not said here* |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: 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 {#o1}

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it was placed under a stone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1117-pg29672-part23:e3:o1:1
# text = it was placed under a stone
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past · passive |  | it |  | a stone |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under stone=Destination |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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it was interred in the cemetery

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1117-pg29672-part23:e3:o2:1
# text = it was interred in the cemetery
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	interred	inter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inter** | past · passive |  | it |  | the cemetery |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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it was burned

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1117-pg29672-part23:e3:o3:1
# text = it was burned
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | past · passive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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it was buried in the garden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1117-pg29672-part23:e3:o4:1
# text = it was buried in the garden
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** | past · passive |  | it |  | the garden |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in garden=Destination |

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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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