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title: Lol, the women said "what's this marvel"? What's a marvel? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Dead Witch: de… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, the women said "what's this marvel"? What's a marvel? Test 12 · ★ 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 of each option; Mo
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# Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Dead Witch: demons steal the witch…

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Lol, the women said "what's this marvel"? What's a marvel?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** women · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** marvel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Lol, the women said "what's this marvel"?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:414-pg22373-part6:t12:1
# text = Lol, the women said "what's this marvel"?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	marvel	marvel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the women |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | this marvel |  |  |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's a marvel?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:414-pg22373-part6:t12:2
# text = What's a marvel?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	marvel	marvel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a marvel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Something boring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:414-pg22373-part6:t12:o1:1
# text = Something boring
1	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
2	boring	boring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Something cold and wet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:414-pg22373-part6:t12:o2:1
# text = Something cold and wet
1	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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Something wonderful and weird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:414-pg22373-part6:t12:o3:1
# text = Something wonderful and weird
1	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
2	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Something strange and scary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:414-pg22373-part6:t12:o4:1
# text = Something strange and scary
1	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
2	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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