--- title: no way, who was the horse really? — Russian Folk-Tales, Petrusha and the D… · tree and pragmatics description: no way, who was the horse really? Test 6 · ★ 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/t6/) [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/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Petrusha and the Devil: the horse turn… no way, who was the horse really? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** way · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** horse This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:417-pg22373-part9:t6:1 # text = no way, who was the horse really? 1 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 8 really really ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | no way and the horse | the horse | | | | | 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} a grey horse his father once rode ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:417-pg22373-part9:t6:o1:1 # text = a grey horse his father once rode 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 6 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 7 advmod _ _ 7 rode road NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} his own father ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:417-pg22373-part9:t6:o2:1 # text = his own father 1 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} the Devil himself ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:417-pg22373-part9:t6:o3:1 # text = the Devil himself 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Devil Devil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} his own father, who had been turned into the horse ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:417-pg22373-part9:t6:o4:1 # text = his own father, who had been turned into the horse 1 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | past · perfect · passive | | his own father | | | | into the horse *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into horse=Result | **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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