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title: What weight in poods was the iron rock recorded to possess in the na… — Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Death… · tree and pragmatics
description: What weight in poods was the iron rock recorded to possess in the narrative? Exam question 3 of lesson 431 «Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 23: Ivan finds a horse, flings a rock, and reaches his mother» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm
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# Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 23: Ivan…

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What weight in poods was the iron rock recorded to possess in the narrative?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** iron rock, weight · **What happens:** weight, be, record, possess · **To what, where:** poods, iron rock, narrative

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 431 «Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 23: Ivan finds a horse, flings a rock, and reaches his mother» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/431-pg22373-part23/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:431-pg22373-part23:e3:1
# text = What weight in poods was the iron rock recorded to possess in the narrative?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	poods	pood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weight** |  | the iron rock |  |  | poods |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | weight | the iron rock |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **record** | participle |  | the iron rock *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **possess** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the narrative |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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So massive that many men could not shift it at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:431-pg22373-part23:e3:o1:1
# text = So massive that many men could not shift it at all
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	shift	shift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **shift** | could | many men | it |  | all |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer it=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Heavy enough to block the whole mountain road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:431-pg22373-part23:e3:o2:1
# text = Heavy enough to block the whole mountain road
1	Heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	block	block	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **block** | to-infinitive |  | the whole mountain road |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer road=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A hundred and sixty poods

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:431-pg22373-part23:e3:o3:1
# text = A hundred and sixty poods
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
5	poods	pood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A hundred and fifty poods

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:431-pg22373-part23:e3:o4:1
# text = A hundred and fifty poods
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
5	poods	pood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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