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title: Lowkey, what did the Smith paint on his door? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lowkey, what did the Smith paint on his door? Test 5 · ★ 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 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon, part 13: a Sp…

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Lowkey, what did the Smith paint on his door?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Lowkey · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Smith paint, door

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:t5:1
# text = Lowkey, what did the Smith paint on his door?
1	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Lowkey | the Smith paint |  | Lowkey's door |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paint=Eventuality |

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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 Demon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:t5:o1:1
# text = a Demon
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Demon	demon	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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the Devil himself in a red coat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:t5:o2:1
# text = the Devil himself in a red coat
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Devil	Devil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	nmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a Dragon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:t5:o3:1
# text = a Dragon
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	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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an Owl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:t5:o4:1
# text = an Owl
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Owl	owl	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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