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title: What object did the brothers place in the cellar in place of the Dia… — Russian Folk-Tales, The Simpleton: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: What object did the brothers place in the cellar in place of the Diachok's body? Exam question 3 of lesson 420 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Simpleton: the ox sold to the Birch, the gold, and the goat's head» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Simpleton: the ox sold to the Birc…

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What object did the brothers place in the cellar in place of the Diachok's body?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** brothers place, cellar

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 420 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Simpleton: the ox sold to the Birch, the gold, and the goat's head» 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/420-pg22373-part12/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:420-pg22373-part12:e3:1
# text = What object did the brothers place in the cellar in place of the Diachok's body?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Diachok	Diachok	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | object | brothers place |  | the cellar in place of the Diachok's body |  |  | 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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A goat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:420-pg22373-part12:e3:o1:1
# text = A goat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goat	goat	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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A sheep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:420-pg22373-part12:e3:o2:1
# text = A sheep
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	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 brothers' old milk cow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:420-pg22373-part12:e3:o3:1
# text = The brothers' old milk cow
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	cow	cow	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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A dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:420-pg22373-part12:e3:o4:1
# text = A dog
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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