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title: bro the nobleman said "for ever and ever" back to ivan, real talk? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Ivan… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro the nobleman said "for ever and ever" back to ivan, real talk? Test 9 · ★ 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 pra
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# Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Ivan and the Daughter of…

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bro the nobleman said "for ever and ever" back to ivan, real talk?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bro · **What happens:** say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1119-pg29672-part25:t9:1
# text = bro the nobleman said "for ever and ever" back to ivan, real talk?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | bro |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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Yes, he replied it to Ivan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1119-pg29672-part25:t9:o1:1
# text = Yes, he replied it to Ivan
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | he | it | Ivan |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to ivan=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nope, not he

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1119-pg29672-part25:t9:o2:1
# text = Nope, not he
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, that's how he answered

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1119-pg29672-part25:t9:o3:1
# text = Yes, that's how he answered
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | how *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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No, he said nothing back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1119-pg29672-part25:t9:o4:1
# text = No, he said nothing back
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	obj	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | he | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |

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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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