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title: Ok fr, what did the ferryman row for? — Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ok fr, what did the ferryman row for? Test 12 · ★ 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 question and of ea
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# Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark the Rich, part 6: Vas…

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Ok fr, what did the ferryman row for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ok fr · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** ferryman row

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1755-pg641-part6:t12:1
# text = Ok fr, what did the ferryman row for?
1	Ok	ok	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	ferryman	ferryman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Ok fr | the ferryman row |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Twenty years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1755-pg641-part6:t12:o1:1
# text = Twenty years
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Thirty years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1755-pg641-part6:t12:o2:1
# text = Thirty years
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Three years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1755-pg641-part6:t12:o3:1
# text = Three years
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Thirty years of rowing without any rest or pay at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1755-pg641-part6:t12:o4:1
# text = Thirty years of rowing without any rest or pay at all
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	rowing	row	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **row** | gerund |  |  |  |  | year | without any rest | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pay** | infinitive |  |  |  | all |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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