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title: Mate, what was the lad about to get dunked in? — Russian Fairy Tales, The Sister of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what was the lad about to get dunked in? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1238 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Sister of the Sun, part 39: a ship saves the boy, and the king sets three tasks» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 1 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Sister of the Sun, part 39: a shi…

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Mate, what was the lad about to get dunked in?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** be, dunk · **To what, where:** lad

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1238 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Sister of the Sun, part 39: a ship saves the boy, and the king sets three 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/1238-pg3282-part39/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1238-pg3282-part39:t1:1
# text = Mate, what was the lad about to get dunked in?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	dunked	dunk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mate and the lad | the lad |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dunk** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination» |

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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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oil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1238-pg3282-part39:t1:o1:1
# text = oil
1	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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hot molten lead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1238-pg3282-part39:t1:o2:1
# text = hot molten lead
1	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	molten	molten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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pitch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1238-pg3282-part39:t1:o3:1
# text = pitch
1	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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boiling pitch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1238-pg3282-part39:t1:o4:1
# text = boiling pitch
1	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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