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title: Bruv, did the Prince chop with a sword or a spoon? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, did the Prince chop with a sword or a spoon? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1123 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon, the Prince slays it but the coachman steals the glory» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon,…

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Bruv, did the Prince chop with a sword or a spoon?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bruv · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Prince chop

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1123 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon, the Prince slays it but the coachman steals the glory» 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/1123-pg29672-part29/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1123-pg29672-part29:t3:1
# text = Bruv, did the Prince chop with a sword or a spoon?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	chop	chop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Bruv | the Prince chop |  |  |  | with a sword or a spoon | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chop=Eventuality |

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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 spoon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1123-pg29672-part29:t3:o1:1
# text = a spoon
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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a broadsword

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1123-pg29672-part29:t3:o2:1
# text = a broadsword
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	broadsword	broadsword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a long spear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1123-pg29672-part29:t3:o3:1
# text = a long spear
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spear	spear	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 stick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1123-pg29672-part29:t3:o4:1
# text = a stick
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stick	stick	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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