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title: Was that linen actually fire or what, like compared to his brothers? — Russian Fairy Tales, The Frog Bride, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was that linen actually fire or what, like compared to his brothers? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1803 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Frog Bride, part 1: the youngest son's frog spins his linen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 6 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Frog Bride, part 1: the youngest…

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Was that linen actually fire or what, like compared to his brothers?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** compare

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1803 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Frog Bride, part 1: the youngest son's frog spins his linen» 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/1803-pg641-part54/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1803-pg641-part54:t6:1
# text = Was that linen actually fire or what, like compared to his brothers?
1	Was	was	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to his brothers | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Yeah, it was way finer and whiter than theirs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1803-pg641-part54:t6:o1:1
# text = Yeah, it was way finer and whiter than theirs
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	finer	fine	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	whiter	white	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	conj	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	theirs	their	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | than theirs *= they*; way *obl:unmarked*; fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yeah, it was way finer and whiter than theirs and everybody noticed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1803-pg641-part54:t6:o2:1
# text = Yeah, it was way finer and whiter than theirs and everybody noticed
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	finer	fine	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	whiter	white	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	conj	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	theirs	their	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
13	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | way *obl:unmarked*; fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  | than theirs *= they* | tree rules |
| 3 | **notice** | past | everybody |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nah, it was coarser than theirs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1803-pg641-part54:t6:o3:1
# text = Nah, it was coarser than theirs
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	coarser	coarse	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	theirs	their	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | than theirs *= they*; coarse *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Nah, it looked the same as theirs but smelled like pond water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1803-pg641-part54:t6:o4:1
# text = Nah, it looked the same as theirs but smelled like pond water
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	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	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	theirs	their	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	smelled	smell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | it | the same |  |  |  | as theirs *= they* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute |
| 2 | **smell** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | like pond water | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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