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title: what did she warn him about? — Russian Folk Tales, The Awful Drunkard… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did she warn him about? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 416 «Russian Folk Tales, The Awful Drunkard, part 8: Petrusha visits the Devil's palace and finds his drowned father there as a horse» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk Tales, The Awful Drunkard, part 8: Petrusha v…

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what did she warn him about?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** warn · **To what, where:** him

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 416 «Russian Folk Tales, The Awful Drunkard, part 8: Petrusha visits the Devil's palace and finds his drowned father there as a horse» 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/416-pg22373-part8/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:416-pg22373-part8:t9:1
# text = what did she warn him about?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	warn	warn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past · do-support | she |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | 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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devils gonna tear him up into little pieces, dude, be careful

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:416-pg22373-part8:t9:o1:1
# text = devils gonna tear him up into little pieces, dude, be careful
1	devils	devil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
3	tear	tear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tear up** | infinitive | devils | him *= he* |  |  |  | into little pieces and dude *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into piece=Result |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | devils *not said here* |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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devils gonna tear him up, dude

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:416-pg22373-part8:t9:o2:1
# text = devils gonna tear him up, dude
1	devils	devil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
3	tear	tear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tear up** | infinitive | devils | him *= he* |  |  |  | dude *vocative* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location he=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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devils gonna tear him up if he messes up, dude, so watch out

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:416-pg22373-part8:t9:o3:1
# text = devils gonna tear him up if he messes up, dude, so watch out
1	devils	devil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
3	tear	tear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	messes	mess	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tear up** | infinitive | devils | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location he=Theme |
| 2 | **mess up** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | he | dude |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **watch out** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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devils gonna trick him, dude

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:416-pg22373-part8:t9:o4:1
# text = devils gonna trick him, dude
1	devils	devil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	conj	_	_
3	trick	trick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick** | infinitive | devils | him *= he* |  |  |  | dude *obl* | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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