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title: Why did they sack up the shepherd anyway? — Russian Fairy Tales, Mr. Simon: the ro… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did they sack up the shepherd anyway? Test 6 · ★ 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 choice was 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Mr. Simon: the rogues drown the wrong…

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Why did they sack up the shepherd anyway?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** they · **What happens:** sack up · **To what, where:** shepherd

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1907-pg7277-part44:t6:1
# text = Why did they sack up the shepherd anyway?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sack	sack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sack up** | past · do-support | they | the shepherd |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=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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Simon promised them a golden reward

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1907-pg7277-part44:t6:o1:1
# text = Simon promised them a golden reward
1	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Simon | a golden reward | them *= they* |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal reward=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Simon wanted revenge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1907-pg7277-part44:t6:o2:1
# text = Simon wanted revenge
1	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | Simon | revenge |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot revenge=Theme |

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

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Simon said the king would give his daughter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1907-pg7277-part44:t6:o3:1
# text = Simon said the king would give his daughter
1	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	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	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	iobj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Simon |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** | would | the king |  | king's daughter |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They wanted a bag of gold coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1907-pg7277-part44:t6:o4:1
# text = They wanted a bag of gold coins
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | They | a bag of gold coins |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bag=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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