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title: Was the Spider's Kazan story legit or sus? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the Spider's Kazan story legit or sus? Test 4 · ★ 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
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# Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon, part 13: a Sp…

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Was the Spider's Kazan story legit or sus?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Kazan story legit

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:t4:1
# text = Was the Spider's Kazan story legit or sus?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Spider	Spider	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	Kazan	Kazan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	legit	legit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the Spider's Kazan story legit or sus |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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a total joke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:t4:o1:1
# text = a total joke
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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a total lie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:t4:o2:1
# text = a total lie
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lie	lie	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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a completely made-up story from start to finish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:t4:o3:1
# text = a completely made-up story from start to finish
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | completely *property* | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **finish** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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partly true but mostly a boastful lie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:t4:o4:1
# text = partly true but mostly a boastful lie
1	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	boastful	boastful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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