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title: Which poor guy got chucked in the river by mistake? — Russian Fairy Tales, Mr. Simon: the ro… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which poor guy got chucked in the river by mistake? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1907 «Russian Fairy Tales, Mr. Simon: the rogues drown the wrong man and are drowned themselves» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 5 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Mr. Simon: the rogues drown the wrong…

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Which poor guy got chucked in the river by mistake?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mistake · **What happens:** chuck · **To what, where:** poor guy, river

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1907 «Russian Fairy Tales, Mr. Simon: the rogues drown the wrong man and are drowned themselves» 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/1907-pg7277-part44/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1907-pg7277-part44:t5:1
# text = Which poor guy got chucked in the river by mistake?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	chucked	chuck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chuck** | past · passive | mistake | poor guy |  | the river |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Destination which=Theme |

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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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The rogue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1907-pg7277-part44:t5:o1:1
# text = The rogue
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rogue	rogue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Simon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1907-pg7277-part44:t5:o2:1
# text = Simon
1	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The shepherd

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1907-pg7277-part44:t5:o3:1
# text = The shepherd
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The stable boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1907-pg7277-part44:t5:o4:1
# text = The stable boy
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stable	stable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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