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title: In what locality did the peasant practise his cures? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Bad Wife: a pe… · tree and pragmatics
description: In what locality did the peasant practise his cures? Exam question 2 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 option; Mova'
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# Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Bad Wife: a peasant frees a demon…

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In what locality did the peasant practise his cures?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** locality · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** peasant practise

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:418-pg22373-part10:e2:1
# text = In what locality did the peasant practise his cures?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	locality	locality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	peasant	peasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	practise	practise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	cures	cure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | locality | the peasant practise |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent practise=Eventuality |

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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 city of Kazan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:418-pg22373-part10:e2:o1:1
# text = The city of Kazan
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Kazan	Kazan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Vologda

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:418-pg22373-part10:e2:o2:1
# text = Vologda
1	Vologda	Vologda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:418-pg22373-part10:e2:o3:1
# text = The town
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The town of Vologda

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:418-pg22373-part10:e2:o4:1
# text = The town of Vologda
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Vologda	Vologda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	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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