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title: Which feast was this shindig for? — Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, part 4: M… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which feast was this shindig for? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 412 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, part 4: Marusia follows a thread to a church, sees her sweetheart's terrible secret, and learns that her parents will die» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Test 14 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, part 4: Marusia follows a thr…

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Which feast was this shindig for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** feast · **What happens:** be

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 412 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, part 4: Marusia follows a thread to a church, sees her sweetheart's terrible secret, and learns that her parents will die» 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/412-pg22373-part4/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:412-pg22373-part4:t14:1
# text = Which feast was this shindig for?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	shindig	shindig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | which feast |  |  |  |  | for this shindig | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The feast of St. Andrew and all the saints

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:412-pg22373-part4:t14:o1:1
# text = The feast of St. Andrew and all the saints
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	saints	saint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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St. Andrew's feast, the great village celebration of the year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:412-pg22373-part4:t14:o2:1
# text = St. Andrew's feast, the great village celebration of the year
1	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	celebration	celebration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** |  |  | the year |  |  |  |  | nom celebration «event transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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St. Andrew's feast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:412-pg22373-part4:t14:o3:1
# text = St. Andrew's feast
1	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	feast	feast	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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Pentecost of the village

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:412-pg22373-part4:t14:o4:1
# text = Pentecost of the village
1	Pentecost	Pentecost	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

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