--- title: Mate, what did Simon call the rogues? — Russian Fairy Tales, Mr. Simon: the ro… · tree and pragmatics description: Mate, what did Simon call the rogues? Test 8 · ★ 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 righ --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1907-pg7277-part44/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Russian Fairy Tales, Mr. Simon: the ro…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1907-pg7277-part44/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Mr. Simon: the rogues drown the wrong… Mate, what did Simon call the rogues? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Simon · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** Mate · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1907-pg7277-part44:t8:1 # text = Mate, what did Simon call the rogues? 1 Mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 Simon Simon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 rogues rogue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | past · do-support | Simon | Mate | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme rogue=Result | 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} Silly donkeys who never listen to anyone ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1907-pg7277-part44:t8:o1:1 # text = Silly donkeys who never listen to anyone 1 Silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 donkeys donkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 4 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 listen listen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **listen** | present | Silly donkeys | | | | | to anyone | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to anyone=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Silly, greedy donkeys who deserved every bit of their ruin ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1907-pg7277-part44:t8:o2:1 # text = Silly, greedy donkeys who deserved every bit of their ruin 1 Silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 greedy greedy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 donkeys donkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 deserved deserve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 ruin ruin NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **deserve** | past | Silly greedy donkeys | every bit of donkeys's ruin | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ruin** | | donkeys *= donkey* | | | | | | nom ruin «state transitive»: poss=agent | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Silly donkeys ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1907-pg7277-part44:t8:o3:1 # text = Silly donkeys 1 Silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 donkeys donkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Stupid rascals ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1907-pg7277-part44:t8:o4:1 # text = Stupid rascals 1 Stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 rascals rascal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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