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title: Subsequent to the burning of the incense, which celestial being desc… — Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Ivan… · tree and pragmatics
description: Subsequent to the burning of the incense, which celestial being descended to address the youth? Exam question 4 of lesson 1119 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Ivan and the Daughter of the Sun, part 1: Ivan buys incense, chooses a wife, and builds a hut» of the books course of Mova's primary school
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# Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Ivan and the Daughter of…

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Subsequent to the burning of the incense, which celestial being descended to address the youth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** descend, address · **To what, where:** celestial, youth

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1119 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Ivan and the Daughter of the Sun, part 1: Ivan buys incense, chooses a wife, and builds a hut» 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/1119-pg29672-part25/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1119-pg29672-part25:e4:1
# text = Subsequent to the burning of the incense, which celestial being descended to address the youth?
1	Subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	10	det	_	_
10	celestial	celestial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	descended	descend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	address	address	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **descend** | gerund · passive |  | which celestial |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **address** | to-infinitive |  | the youth |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Destination |

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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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A saint

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1119-pg29672-part25:e4:o1:1
# text = A saint
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	saint	saint	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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A demon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1119-pg29672-part25:e4:o2:1
# text = A demon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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An angel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1119-pg29672-part25:e4:o3:1
# text = An angel
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1119-pg29672-part25:e4:o4:1
# text = A bird
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	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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**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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