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title: Fr, what did the oak actually have under its roots? — Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fr, what did the oak actually have under its roots? Test 4 · ★ 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 quest
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# Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark the Rich, part 6: Vas…

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Fr, what did the oak actually have under its roots?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Fr, oak · **What happens:** do, have · **To what, where:** oak, roots

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1755-pg641-part6:t4:1
# text = Fr, what did the oak actually have under its roots?
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Fr | the oak |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oak=Eventuality |
| 2 | **have** | present | the oak *not said here* |  |  | Fr's roots |  | actually *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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Old coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1755-pg641-part6:t4:o1:1
# text = Old coins
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Gold and silver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1755-pg641-part6:t4:o2:1
# text = Gold and silver
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Gold and silver coins from the twelve sunken ships of Mark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1755-pg641-part6:t4:o3:1
# text = Gold and silver coins from the twelve sunken ships of Mark
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	sunken	sunken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Mark	Mark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bronze bells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1755-pg641-part6:t4:o4:1
# text = Bronze bells
1	Bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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