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title: In which city did the Spider's messengers claim the Spider had been… — Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: In which city did the Spider's messengers claim the Spider had been executed? Exam question 2 of lesson 421 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon, part 13: a Spider tricks the gnats, then a Smith's son torments a painted Demon» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency
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# Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon, part 13: a Sp…

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In which city did the Spider's messengers claim the Spider had been executed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** messengers · **What happens:** do, claim, execute · **To what, where:** city, Spider · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 421 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon, part 13: a Spider tricks the gnats, then a Smith's son torments a painted Demon» 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/421-pg22373-part13/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:e2:1
# text = In which city did the Spider's messengers claim the Spider had been executed?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Spider	Spider	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	claim	claim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Spider	Spider	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	executed	execute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  | which city |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **claim** *speech: other* | present | the Spider's messengers |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **execute** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Spider |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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Kazan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:e2:o1:1
# text = Kazan
1	Kazan	Kazan	PROPN	NNP	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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the great city of Nizhny Novgorod

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:e2:o2:1
# text = the great city of Nizhny Novgorod
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Nizhny	Nizhny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	Novgorod	Novgorod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Perm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:e2:o3:1
# text = Perm
1	Perm	perm	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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Tula

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:e2:o4:1
# text = Tula
1	Tula	Tula	PROPN	NNP	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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