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title: Was the Fiend sad about the deaths, or nah? — Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, part 4: M… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the Fiend sad about the deaths, or nah? Test 9 · ★ 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 pra
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# Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, part 4: Marusia follows a thr…

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Was the Fiend sad about the deaths, or nah?

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

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:412-pg22373-part4:t9:1
# text = Was the Fiend sad about the deaths, or nah?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Fiend	fiend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	deaths	death	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Fiend |  |  |  |  | about the deaths; sad *property* | 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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He was happy, lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:412-pg22373-part4:t9:o1:1
# text = He was happy, lol
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, sad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:412-pg22373-part4:t9:o2:1
# text = Yes, sad
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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He acted sad, lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:412-pg22373-part4:t9:o3:1
# text = He acted sad, lol
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	acted	act	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **act** | past | He |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nope, happy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:412-pg22373-part4:t9:o4:1
# text = Nope, happy
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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