---
title: yo, what did the archer say after the drop? — Russian Fairy Tales, The Magic Egg, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo, what did the archer say after the drop? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1126 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Magic Egg, part 32: Ivan's fiddle makes the parson dance; the lark and mouse go to war; an eagle repays an archer» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1126-pg29672-part32/t8/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Russian Fairy Tales, The Magic Egg, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1126-pg29672-part32/) / t8

# Test 8 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Magic Egg, part 32: Ivan's fiddle…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yo, what did the archer say after the drop?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** archer · **What happens:** say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1126 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Magic Egg, part 32: Ivan's fiddle makes the parson dance; the lark and mouse go to war; an eagle repays an archer» 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/1126-pg29672-part32/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1126-pg29672-part32:t8:1
# text = yo, what did the archer say after the drop?
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	archer	archer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the archer |  |  |  | after the drop |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
felt like a broken stick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1126-pg29672-part32:t8:o1:1
# text = felt like a broken stick
1	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past |  |  |  |  |  | like a broken stick | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like stick=Theme |
| 2 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
felt like someone had taken all of his breath and blood away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1126-pg29672-part32:t8:o2:1
# text = felt like someone had taken all of his breath and blood away
1	felt	felt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · perfect | someone | all |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
felt like no life in him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1126-pg29672-part32:t8:o3:1
# text = felt like no life in him
1	felt	felt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
felt like he had no life left in him at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1126-pg29672-part32:t8:o4:1
# text = felt like he had no life left in him at all
1	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | he | no life |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient |
| 3 | **leave** | participle |  | no life *not said here* |  | all |  | in him *= he* *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in he=Result |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Russian Fairy Tales, The Magic Egg, pa…, test 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1126-pg29672-part32/t7/)
- next →: [Russian Fairy Tales, The Magic Egg, pa…, test 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1126-pg29672-part32/t9/)
- ↑ back to [Russian Fairy Tales, The Magic Egg, part 32: Ivan's fiddle makes the parson dance; the lark and mouse go to war; an eagle repays an archer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1126-pg29672-part32/)