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title: Upon what object did the wife of the peasant precipitate herself? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Bad Wife: a pe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon what object did the wife of the peasant precipitate herself? Exam question 1 of lesson 418 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Bad Wife: a peasant frees a demon from a pit and cures the town» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Bad Wife: a peasant frees a demon…

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Upon what object did the wife of the peasant precipitate herself?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** wife

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 418 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Bad Wife: a peasant frees a demon from a pit and cures the town» 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/418-pg22373-part10/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:418-pg22373-part10:e1:1
# text = Upon what object did the wife of the peasant precipitate herself?
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
3	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	peasant	peasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	precipitate	precipitate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | object | the wife of the peasant precipitate |  |  |  | object *obl* | 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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The oak tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:418-pg22373-part10:e1:o1:1
# text = The oak tree
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The big currant bush near the woods

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:418-pg22373-part10:e1:o2:1
# text = The big currant bush near the woods
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	currant	currant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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The currant bush

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:418-pg22373-part10:e1:o3:1
# text = The currant bush
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	currant	currant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The currant bush beside the pit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:418-pg22373-part10:e1:o4:1
# text = The currant bush beside the pit
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	currant	currant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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