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title: What is "skazka" in the book, like what's it called? — Russian Folk-Tales, Norka: the brother… · tree and pragmatics
description: What is "skazka" in the book, like what's it called? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 427 «Russian Folk-Tales, Norka: the brothers are punished and three weddings are held» 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 wa
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# Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Norka: the brothers are punished and t…

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What is "skazka" in the book, like what's it called?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** skazka · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 427 «Russian Folk-Tales, Norka: the brothers are punished and three weddings are held» 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/427-pg22373-part19/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:427-pg22373-part19:t11:1
# text = What is "skazka" in the book, like what's it called?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	skazka	skazka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · passive |  | skazka |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=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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A type of old prayer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:427-pg22373-part19:t11:o1:1
# text = A type of old prayer
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **type** |  |  | old prayer |  |  |  |  | nom type «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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

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A folk tale told aloud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:427-pg22373-part19:t11:o2:1
# text = A folk tale told aloud
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | a folk tale *not said here* |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A Russian folk tale told aloud to listeners

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:427-pg22373-part19:t11:o3:1
# text = A Russian folk tale told aloud to listeners
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	listeners	listener	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a Russian folk tale |  | listeners |  |  | aloud *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to listener=Recipient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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A kind of Russian fable

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:427-pg22373-part19:t11:o4:1
# text = A kind of Russian fable
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	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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