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title: bro, where was the prince when Ivan found him? — Russian Fairy Tales, Ivan Golik: the p… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, where was the prince when Ivan found him? Test 8 · ★ 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; Mova's ch
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# Test 8 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Ivan Golik: the princess splits Ivan…

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bro, where was the prince when Ivan found him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ivan · **What happens:** be, find · **To what, where:** prince, him

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1133-pg29672-part39:t8:1
# text = bro, where was the prince when Ivan found him?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
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	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | past | Ivan | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |

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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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on a tomb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1133-pg29672-part39:t8:o1:1
# text = on a tomb
1	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
herding geese by a well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1133-pg29672-part39:t8:o2:1
# text = herding geese by a well
1	herding	herd	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **herd** | gerund |  | geese |  |  |  | by a well | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent goose=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
in a field

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1133-pg29672-part39:t8:o3:1
# text = in a field
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
tending swine on a tomb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1133-pg29672-part39:t8:o4:1
# text = tending swine on a tomb
1	tending	tend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	swine	swine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tend** | gerund |  | swine |  | a tomb |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swine=Theme |

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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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