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title: What's the monk trick with the old house? — Russian Folk-Tales, The She-Dragon's D… · tree and pragmatics
description: What's the monk trick with the old house? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1128 «Russian Folk-Tales, The She-Dragon's Daughter, part 34: Ivan is tricked and the dragon is fooled, then the maiden becomes a fish» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Test 7 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The She-Dragon's Daughter, part 34: Iv…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
What's the monk trick with the old house?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** monk trick · **What happens:** be

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1128 «Russian Folk-Tales, The She-Dragon's Daughter, part 34: Ivan is tricked and the dragon is fooled, then the maiden becomes a fish» 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/1128-pg29672-part34/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1128-pg29672-part34:t7:1
# text = What's the monk trick with the old house?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the monk trick with the old house |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Old monastery, a hundred years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1128-pg29672-part34:t7:o1:1
# text = Old monastery, a hundred years
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	monastery	monastery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Old monastery, a hundred years, and the monks sold the house to a dragon

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1128-pg29672-part34:t7:o2:1
# text = Old monastery, a hundred years, and the monks sold the house to a dragon
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	monastery	monastery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | past | the monks | the house | a dragon |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent house=Theme to dragon=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The monks live in an old monastery that's been standing for a hundred years, innit

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1128-pg29672-part34:t7:o3:1
# text = The monks live in an old monastery that's been standing for a hundred years, innit
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	monastery	monastery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux	_	_
11	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | the monks |  |  | a old monastery |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in monastery=Location |
| 2 | **stand** | present · progressive | a old monastery |  |  |  | year |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The old mill, a hundred years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1128-pg29672-part34:t7:o4:1
# text = The old mill, a hundred years
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

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