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title: why did the dad give the flute to the mum, lol? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Three Brothers… · tree and pragmatics
description: why did the dad give the flute to the mum, lol? Test 6 · ★ 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 ea
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# Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Three Brothers: a hog eats the gol…

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why did the dad give the flute to the mum, lol?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** dad · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** flute, mum

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1117-pg29672-part23:t6:1
# text = why did the dad give the flute to the mum, lol?
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · do-support | the dad | the flute | the mum |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent flute=Theme to mum=Recipient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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so she could play it too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1117-pg29672-part23:t6:o1:1
# text = so she could play it too
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | could | she | it |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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so she could sing along

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1117-pg29672-part23:t6:o2:1
# text = so she could sing along
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	along	along	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | could | she |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
so she could play it too whenever she wanted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1117-pg29672-part23:t6:o3:1
# text = so she could play it too whenever she wanted
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | could | she | it |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **want** | past | she |  |  |  |  | whenever *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
because the boys were too lazy to play it themselves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1117-pg29672-part23:t6:o4:1
# text = because the boys were too lazy to play it themselves
1	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the boys |  |  |  |  | lazy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | to-infinitive | the boys *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary themselves=Theme |

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