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description: bro the nobleman just found a flute in a ditch bush, how random is that? Test 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 pragmatics 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Three Brothers: a hog eats the gol…

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bro the nobleman just found a flute in a ditch bush, how random is that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bro nobleman · **What happens:** find, be · **To what, where:** flute, ditch bush, that

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This is test 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. 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1117-pg29672-part23:t4:1
# text = bro the nobleman just found a flute in a ditch bush, how random is that?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	ditch	ditch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
14	random	random	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the bro nobleman | a flute |  | a ditch bush |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | that |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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super random but it works

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1117-pg29672-part23:t4:o1:1
# text = super random but it works
1	super	super	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	random	random	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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very odd but it's true

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1117-pg29672-part23:t4:o2:1
# text = very odd but it's true
1	very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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super weird but it works

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1117-pg29672-part23:t4:o3:1
# text = super weird but it works
1	super	super	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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kinda weird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1117-pg29672-part23:t4:o4:1
# text = kinda weird
1	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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