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title: Did the Birch seriously take the Simpleton's money, like, for real? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Simpleton: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the Birch seriously take the Simpleton's money, like, for real? Test 1 · ★ 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 question and of each 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Simpleton: the ox sold to the Birc…

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Did the Birch seriously take the Simpleton's money, like, for real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Birch · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** money

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This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:420-pg22373-part12:t1:1
# text = Did the Birch seriously take the Simpleton's money, like, for real?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Birch	Birch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · do-support | the Birch | the Simpleton's money |  |  |  | seriously *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |

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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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Nope, it just made creaky sounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:420-pg22373-part12:t1:o1:1
# text = Nope, it just made creaky sounds
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	creaky	creaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | it | creaky sounds |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material sound=Product |

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

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Nah, it was just creaking, bruh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:420-pg22373-part12:t1:o2:1
# text = Nah, it was just creaking, bruh
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	creaking	creak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creak** | past · progressive | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nah, bruh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:420-pg22373-part12:t1:o3:1
# text = Nah, bruh
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nope.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:420-pg22373-part12:t1:o4:1
# text = Nope.
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

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