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title: Wait, what was the name of the serpent's empire, the real one? — Russian Tales, Ivan Golik, part 37: Iv… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what was the name of the serpent's empire, the real one? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1131 «Russian Tales, Ivan Golik, part 37: Ivan's animal helpers win the serpent's tasks» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 7 · ★ · Russian Tales, Ivan Golik, part 37: Ivan's animal helpers…

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Wait, what was the name of the serpent's empire, the real one?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** name

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1131 «Russian Tales, Ivan Golik, part 37: Ivan's animal helpers win the serpent's tasks» 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/1131-pg29672-part37/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1131-pg29672-part37:t7:1
# text = Wait, what was the name of the serpent's empire, the real one?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the name |  |  |  | of the serpent's empire | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The Great Empire of Thrice-ten Serpents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1131-pg29672-part37:t7:o1:1
# text = The Great Empire of Thrice-ten Serpents
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Thrice	Thrice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	Serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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Empire of Thrice-ten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1131-pg29672-part37:t7:o2:1
# text = Empire of Thrice-ten
1	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Thrice	Thrice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Empire of Thrice-ten Golden Serpent Kings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1131-pg29672-part37:t7:o3:1
# text = Empire of Thrice-ten Golden Serpent Kings
1	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Thrice	Thrice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Serpent	Serpent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Kingdom of Nine-fold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1131-pg29672-part37:t7:o4:1
# text = Kingdom of Nine-fold
1	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	fold	fold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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