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title: Mate, why did the wolf just bail on her? — Russian Fairy Tales, The Emperor's You… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, why did the wolf just bail on her? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1806 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Emperor's Youngest Daughter, part 57: the princess beats three monsters and swaps the genius's flowers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 1 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Emperor's Youngest Daughter, part…

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Mate, why did the wolf just bail on her?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** wolf

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1806 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Emperor's Youngest Daughter, part 57: the princess beats three monsters and swaps the genius's flowers» 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/1806-pg641-part57/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1806-pg641-part57:t1:1
# text = Mate, why did the wolf just bail on her?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
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	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	bail	bail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Mate | the wolf |  |  |  | bail on her *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=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 {#o1}

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her sword was too sharp

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1806-pg641-part57:t1:o1:1
# text = her sword was too sharp
1	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | her sword |  |  |  |  | sharp *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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it saw the sword in her hand and got so scared it ran

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1806-pg641-part57:t1:o2:1
# text = it saw the sword in her hand and got so scared it ran
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | it | the sword |  | her hand |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus |
| 2 | **get** | past |  |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **run** | past | sword |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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it saw her sword flash and got scared off into the trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1806-pg641-part57:t1:o3:1
# text = it saw her sword flash and got scared off into the trees
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | it | her sword flash |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flash=Stimulus |
| 2 | **get off** | past |  |  |  | the trees |  | scared *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination |
| 3 | **flash** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom flash «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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it saw her sword and got scared

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1806-pg641-part57:t1:o4:1
# text = it saw her sword and got scared
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | it | her sword |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus |
| 2 | **get** | past |  |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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