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title: sus, what was the witch pretending to be? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Chudo-Yudo, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: sus, what was the witch pretending to be? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 425 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Chudo-Yudo, part 17: Ivan slays three monsters, the widows take revenge, and an Aged One sends him on» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Chudo-Yudo, part 17: Ivan slays th…

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sus, what was the witch pretending to be?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sus, witch · **What happens:** be, pretend · **To what, where:** witch

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 425 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Chudo-Yudo, part 17: Ivan slays three monsters, the widows take revenge, and an Aged One sends him on» 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/425-pg22373-part17/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:425-pg22373-part17:t6:1
# text = sus, what was the witch pretending to be?
1	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | sus | the witch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pretend** | gerund | the witch *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | to-infinitive | the witch *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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a wandering monk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:425-pg22373-part17:t6:o1:1
# text = a wandering monk
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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

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a beggar-woman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:425-pg22373-part17:t6:o2:1
# text = a beggar-woman
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	woman	woman	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 beggar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:425-pg22373-part17:t6:o3:1
# text = a beggar
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	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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a hag

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:425-pg22373-part17:t6:o4:1
# text = a hag
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hag	hag	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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