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title: Real talk, what did the seigneur want? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, what did the seigneur want? Test 12 · ★ 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 tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon, part 13: a Sp…

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Real talk, what did the seigneur want?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** seigneur · **What happens:** want · **To what, where:** Real talk

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This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:t12:1
# text = Real talk, what did the seigneur want?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	seigneur	seigneur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past · do-support | the seigneur | Real talk |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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to be made well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:t12:o1:1
# text = to be made well
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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to be made rich

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:t12:o2:1
# text = to be made rich
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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to have his old age taken away forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:t12:o3:1
# text = to have his old age taken away forever
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take away** | infinitive · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | away, forever *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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to be made young

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:t12:o4:1
# text = to be made young
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | young *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |

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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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