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title: Lush, what's the scary thing living in the river? — Russian Fairy Tales, The Sister of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lush, what's the scary thing living in the river? Test 12 · ★ 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 op
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# Test 12 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Sister of the Sun, part 39: a shi…

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Lush, what's the scary thing living in the river?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lush, scary thing · **What happens:** be, live · **To what, where:** scary thing, river

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1238-pg3282-part39:t12:1
# text = Lush, what's the scary thing living in the river?
1	Lush	Lush	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	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** | present | Lush | the scary thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | the scary thing *not said here* |  |  | the river |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Location |

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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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a sea monster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1238-pg3282-part39:t12:o1:1
# text = a sea monster
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	monster	monster	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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a huge wolf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1238-pg3282-part39:t12:o2:1
# text = a huge wolf
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wolf	wolf	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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a seven-headed beast with fiery breath

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1238-pg3282-part39:t12:o3:1
# text = a seven-headed beast with fiery breath
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	headed	headed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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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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a serpent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1238-pg3282-part39:t12:o4:1
# text = a serpent
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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