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title: Which object in the narrative repeatedly reveals the truth of the cr… — Russian Folk-Tales, The Three Brothers… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object in the narrative repeatedly reveals the truth of the crime? Exam question 4 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 pragma
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# Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Three Brothers: a hog eats the gol…

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Which object in the narrative repeatedly reveals the truth of the crime?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** reveal · **To what, where:** truth

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1117-pg29672-part23:e4:1
# text = Which object in the narrative repeatedly reveals the truth of the crime?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	repeatedly	repeatedly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	reveals	reveal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reveal** | present | which object in the narrative | the truth of the crime |  |  |  | repeatedly *property* | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Topic |

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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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the gun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1117-pg29672-part23:e4:o1:1
# text = the gun
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gun	gun	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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the hog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1117-pg29672-part23:e4:o2:1
# text = the hog
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hog	hog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1117-pg29672-part23:e4:o3:1
# text = the horse
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	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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the flute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1117-pg29672-part23:e4:o4:1
# text = the flute
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flute	flute	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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