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title: how many buckets did he chug down, lol? — Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Death… · tree and pragmatics
description: how many buckets did he chug down, lol? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 428 «Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 20: Ivan's sisters wed three birds, then he frees Koshchei and searches for his wife» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 20: Ivan'…

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how many buckets did he chug down, lol?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** many buckets · **What happens:** chug down

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 428 «Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 20: Ivan's sisters wed three birds, then he frees Koshchei and searches for his 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/428-pg22373-part20/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:428-pg22373-part20:t8:1
# text = how many buckets did he chug down, lol?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	buckets	bucket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	chug	chug	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chug down** | past · do-support | many buckets |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
three buckets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:428-pg22373-part20:t8:o1:1
# text = three buckets
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	buckets	bucket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
four buckets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:428-pg22373-part20:t8:o2:1
# text = four buckets
1	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	buckets	bucket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
three huge buckets he chugged down, fr

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:428-pg22373-part20:t8:o3:1
# text = three huge buckets he chugged down, fr
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	buckets	bucket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	chugged	chug	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chug down** | past | three huge buckets | fr |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
three buckets of water, all of it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:428-pg22373-part20:t8:o4:1
# text = three buckets of water, all of it
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	buckets	bucket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	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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