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title: nah, what does the serpent promise at the very end? — Russian Fairy Tales, Ivan Golik: the p… · tree and pragmatics
description: nah, what does the serpent promise at the very end? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1133 «Russian Fairy Tales, Ivan Golik: the princess splits Ivan in two, and the brothers meet again» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 11 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Ivan Golik: the princess splits Ivan…

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nah, what does the serpent promise at the very end?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** serpent promise, end

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1133 «Russian Fairy Tales, Ivan Golik: the princess splits Ivan in two, and the brothers meet again» 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/1133-pg29672-part39/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1133-pg29672-part39:t11:1
# text = nah, what does the serpent promise at the very end?
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | the serpent promise |  |  | at the end |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=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 {#o1}

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never to visit the Tsarivna again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1133-pg29672-part39:t11:o1:1
# text = never to visit the Tsarivna again
1	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	visit	visit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Tsarivna	Tsarivna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **visit** | to-infinitive |  | the Tsarivna |  |  | again |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsarivna=Co-Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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to leave the princess alone forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1133-pg29672-part39:t11:o2:1
# text = to leave the princess alone forever
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | to-infinitive |  | the princess |  |  |  | alone, forever *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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never to return

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1133-pg29672-part39:t11:o3:1
# text = never to return
1	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **return** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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never to fly to the Tsarivna again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1133-pg29672-part39:t11:o4:1
# text = never to fly to the Tsarivna again
1	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	fly	fly	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Tsarivna	Tsarivna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fly** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | again | to the Tsarivna *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tsarivna=Result |

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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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