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title: Wait, so who got turned into a cat? — Slavonic Myths, Ivan Popyalof, part 16… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, so who got turned into a cat? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 424 «Slavonic Myths, Ivan Popyalof, part 16: Ivan kills three snakes and tricks the Snake's wife» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong
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# Test 5 · ★ · Slavonic Myths, Ivan Popyalof, part 16: Ivan kills three s…

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Wait, so who got turned into a cat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, turn

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 424 «Slavonic Myths, Ivan Popyalof, part 16: Ivan kills three snakes and tricks the Snake's wife» 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/424-pg22373-part16/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:424-pg22373-part16:t5:1
# text = Wait, so who got turned into a cat?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 | **turn** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | into a cat *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into cat=Result |

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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 {#o1}

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the Snake's youngest brother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:424-pg22373-part16:t5:o1:1
# text = the Snake's youngest brother
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Snake	Snake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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The Snake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:424-pg22373-part16:t5:o2:1
# text = The Snake
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Ivan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:424-pg22373-part16:t5:o3:1
# text = Ivan
1	Ivan	Ivan	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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Ivan Popyalof himself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:424-pg22373-part16:t5:o4:1
# text = Ivan Popyalof himself
1	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Popyalof	Popyalof	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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