--- title: Bro, why did Mark even send Vassili to the Serpent King? — Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark t… · tree and pragmatics description: Bro, why did Mark even send Vassili to the Serpent King? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1755 «Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark the Rich, part 6: Vassili visits the Serpent King and tricks him out of Mark's ships» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1755-pg641-part6/t1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1755-pg641-part6/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark the Rich, part 6: Vas… Bro, why did Mark even send Vassili to the Serpent King? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** send · **To what, where:** Vassili, Serpent King This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1755 «Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark the Rich, part 6: Vassili visits the Serpent King and tricks him out of Mark's ships» 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/1755-pg641-part6/#t1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1755-pg641-part6:t1:1 # text = Bro, why did Mark even send Vassili to the Serpent King? 1 Bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 Mark Mark PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 even even ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 send send VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Vassili Vassili PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 Serpent Serpent PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past · do-support | | Vassili | the Serpent King | | | Bro *vocative* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vassili=Theme to king=Destination | 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} To get the rent money and also to be rid of a rival forever ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1755-pg641-part6:t1:o1:1 # text = To get the rent money and also to be rid of a rival forever 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 rent rent NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 also also ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 10 rid rid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 rival rival NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 forever forever ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | to-infinitive | | the rent money | | | | forever *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | of a rival; rid *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} To win a bet ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1755-pg641-part6:t1:o2:1 # text = To win a bet 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 win win VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 bet bet NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **win** | to-infinitive | | a bet | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bet=Eventuality | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} To get rent and get rid of him ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1755-pg641-part6:t1:o3:1 # text = To get rent and get rid of him 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 rent rent NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 rid rid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | to-infinitive | | rent | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rent=Stimulus | | 2 | **get** | infinitive | | | | | | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ### Option 4 {#o4} To test his courage ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1755-pg641-part6:t1:o4:1 # text = To test his courage 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 test test VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 courage courage NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **test** | to-infinitive | | his courage | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | **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. 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