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description: In what place did the two demons emerge, as the granddaughter observed? Exam question 2 of lesson 414 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Dead Witch: demons steal the witch's skin, and her body vanishes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Dead Witch: demons steal the witch…

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In what place did the two demons emerge, as the granddaughter observed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** two demons · **What happens:** emerge, observe · **To what, where:** granddaughter

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 414 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Dead Witch: demons steal the witch's skin, and her body vanishes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/414-pg22373-part6/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:414-pg22373-part6:e2:1
# text = In what place did the two demons emerge, as the granddaughter observed?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obl	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	demons	demon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	emerge	emerge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	granddaughter	granddaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	observed	observe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **emerge** | past · do-support | the two demons | the granddaughter |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location granddaughter=Theme |
| 2 | **observe** | participle |  | the granddaughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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From the cellar below

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:414-pg22373-part6:e2:o1:1
# text = From the cellar below
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	below	below	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Through the back door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:414-pg22373-part6:e2:o2:1
# text = Through the back door
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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From a hidden trapdoor beneath the kitchen floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:414-pg22373-part6:e2:o3:1
# text = From a hidden trapdoor beneath the kitchen floor
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	trapdoor	trapdoor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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From beneath the stove

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:414-pg22373-part6:e2:o4:1
# text = From beneath the stove
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stove	stove	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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