--- title: ngl, what did Petrusha ask the Devil for? — Russian Folk-Tales, Petrusha and the D… · tree and pragmatics description: ngl, what did Petrusha ask the Devil for? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 417 «Russian Folk-Tales, Petrusha and the Devil: the horse turns out to be his father» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/417-pg22373-part9/t1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Russian Folk-Tales, Petrusha and the D…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/417-pg22373-part9/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Petrusha and the Devil: the horse turn… ngl, what did Petrusha ask the Devil for? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Petrusha · **What happens:** ask · **To what, where:** Devil This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 417 «Russian Folk-Tales, Petrusha and the Devil: the horse turns out to be his father» 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/417-pg22373-part9/#t1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:417-pg22373-part9:t1:1 # text = ngl, what did Petrusha ask the Devil for? 1 ngl ngl PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 Petrusha Petrusha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Devil Devil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · do-support | Petrusha | | the Devil | | | ngl *vocative* | tree rules | 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} the sorry old horse for the cart ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:417-pg22373-part9:t1:o1:1 # text = the sorry old horse for the cart 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 cart cart NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the old jade for wood ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:417-pg22373-part9:t1:o2:1 # text = the old jade for wood 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 jade jade NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} the sorry old jade for wood and water ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:417-pg22373-part9:t1:o3:1 # text = the sorry old jade for wood and water 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 jade jade NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the old jade for carrying wood ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:417-pg22373-part9:t1:o4:1 # text = the old jade for carrying wood 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 jade jade NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 for for SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 carrying carry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 6 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | gerund | the old jade *not said here* | wood | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | **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. 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