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title: Ngl, what did the coachmen shout? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Bad Wife: a pe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, what did the coachmen shout? Test 7 · ★ 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 choice was wrong.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Bad Wife: a peasant frees a demon…

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Ngl, what did the coachmen shout?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** coachmen · **What happens:** shout

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:418-pg22373-part10:t7:1
# text = Ngl, what did the coachmen shout?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	coachmen	coachman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	shout	shout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | past · do-support | the coachmen |  |  |  |  | Ngl *vocative* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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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Fire, run away now!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:418-pg22373-part10:t7:o1:1
# text = Fire, run away now!
1	Fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run away** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Bad Wife has come!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:418-pg22373-part10:t7:o2:1
# text = The Bad Wife has come!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present · perfect | the Bad Wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Hey, the Bad Wife has come, everybody run!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:418-pg22373-part10:t7:o3:1
# text = Hey, the Bad Wife has come, everybody run!
1	Hey	hey	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	compound	_	_
10	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present · perfect | the Bad Wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Boyar is here!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:418-pg22373-part10:t7:o4:1
# text = The Boyar is here!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Boyar	Boyar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Boyar |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |

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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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