--- title: Wait, what did the Demon use to grab her? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, what did the Demon use to grab her? Test 9 · ★ 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/421-pg22373-part13/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/421-pg22373-part13/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon, part 13: a Sp… Wait, what did the Demon use to grab her? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Demon · **What happens:** wait, use, grab · **To what, where:** Demon This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:t9:1 # text = Wait, what did the Demon use to grab her? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Demon Demon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 grab grab VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 10 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **use** | past · do-support | the Demon | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 3 | **grab** | to-infinitive | the Demon *not said here* | Demon | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | 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} hook ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:t9:o1:1 # text = hook 1 hook hook NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} tongs ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:t9:o2:1 # text = tongs 1 tongs tong NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} rope ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:t9:o3:1 # text = rope 1 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} claws ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:t9:o4:1 # text = claws 1 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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