--- title: was the fool's gun thing a big deal or what? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Three Brothers… · tree and pragmatics description: was the fool's gun thing a big deal or what? Test 11 · ★ 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 of the question and of each --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1117-pg29672-part23/t11/) [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 Three Brothers…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1117-pg29672-part23/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Three Brothers: a hog eats the gol… was the fool's gun thing a big deal or what? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** gun thing This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1117-pg29672-part23:t11:1 # text = was the fool's gun thing a big deal or what? 1 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 gun gun NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 csubj _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the fool's gun thing | | | | | 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 {#o1} not really ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1117-pg29672-part23:t11:o1:1 # text = not really 1 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 really really ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} nope he missed ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1117-pg29672-part23:t11:o2:1 # text = nope he missed 1 nope nope INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 missed miss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **miss** | past | he | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ### Option 3 {#o3} yeah he killed a deer ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1117-pg29672-part23:t11:o3:1 # text = yeah he killed a deer 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 deer deer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kill** | past | he | a deer | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} yeah he shot the hog ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1117-pg29672-part23:t11:o4:1 # text = yeah he shot the hog 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shot shoot VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 hog hog NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shoot** | past | he | the hog | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hog=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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