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title: Why's the moujik so chill about the copeck? — Russian Folk-Tales, Marko the Rich: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why's the moujik so chill about the copeck? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 419 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marko the Rich: a stingy merchant tries to dodge paying one copeck and gets tricked» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Marko the Rich: a stingy merchant trie…

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Why's the moujik so chill about the copeck?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** moujik · **What happens:** be

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 419 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marko the Rich: a stingy merchant tries to dodge paying one copeck and gets tricked» 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/419-pg22373-part11/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:419-pg22373-part11:t10:1
# text = Why's the moujik so chill about the copeck?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	moujik	moujik	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	chill	chill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	copeck	copeck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the moujik |  |  |  |  | why *property* | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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He wanted to get Marko back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:419-pg22373-part11:t10:o1:1
# text = He wanted to get Marko back
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	Marko	Marko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **get back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | He *not said here* | Marko |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer marko=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He trusted Marko to repay him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:419-pg22373-part11:t10:o2:1
# text = He trusted Marko to repay him
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	trusted	trust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Marko	Marko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	repay	repay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trust** | past | He | Marko |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marko=Theme |
| 2 | **repay** | to-infinitive | He *not said here* |  | Marko |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He's rich

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:419-pg22373-part11:t10:o3:1
# text = He's rich
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He was patient

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:419-pg22373-part11:t10:o4:1
# text = He was patient
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	patient	patient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | He |  |  |  |  | patient *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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