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title: yo so ivan's boss paid him like what, for a whole year of grinding? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Ivan… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo so ivan's boss paid him like what, for a whole year of grinding? Test 1 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and pr
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# Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Ivan and the Daughter of…

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yo so ivan's boss paid him like what, for a whole year of grinding?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** yo · **What happens:** pay, grind · **To what, where:** boss

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This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1119-pg29672-part25:t1:1
# text = yo so ivan's boss paid him like what, for a whole year of grinding?
1	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	grinding	grind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past | yo | boss |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset |
| 2 | **grind** | gerund | yo *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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Nine gold pieces

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1119-pg29672-part25:t1:o1:1
# text = Nine gold pieces
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Like three gold pieces, bruh, for the whole year of grinding

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1119-pg29672-part25:t1:o2:1
# text = Like three gold pieces, bruh, for the whole year of grinding
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	acl:relcl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	grinding	grinding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Like five gold bucks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1119-pg29672-part25:t1:o3:1
# text = Like five gold bucks
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bucks	buck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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Three gold pieces

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1119-pg29672-part25:t1:o4:1
# text = Three gold pieces
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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