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title: Real talk, why did the demon get scared at the window? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Bad Wife: a pe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, why did the demon get scared at the window? Test 12 · ★ 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's 
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# Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Bad Wife: a peasant frees a demon…

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Real talk, why did the demon get scared at the window?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do, get · **To what, where:** demon, Real talk

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This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:418-pg22373-part10:t12:1
# text = Real talk, why did the demon get scared at the window?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the demon |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demon=Eventuality |
| 2 | **get** | present |  | Real talk |  |  |  | scared *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The shouting outside about the Bad Wife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:418-pg22373-part10:t12:o1:1
# text = The shouting outside about the Bad Wife
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shouting	shouting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Wife	wife	NOUN	NN	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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The men shouting about a wife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:418-pg22373-part10:t12:o2:1
# text = The men shouting about a wife
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | the men |  |  |  |  | about a wife | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about wife=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The dogs barking at the house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:418-pg22373-part10:t12:o3:1
# text = The dogs barking at the house
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	barking	bark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bark** | gerund | the dogs |  |  |  |  | at the house | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at house=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The shouting outside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:418-pg22373-part10:t12:o4:1
# text = The shouting outside
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shouting	shouting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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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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