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title: what did the princess say Koshchei was? — Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Death… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the princess say Koshchei was? Test 11 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 23: Ivan…

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what did the princess say Koshchei was?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** do, say, be · **To what, where:** Koshchei · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:431-pg22373-part23:t11:1
# text = what did the princess say Koshchei was?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the princess | Koshchei |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent koshchei=Topic |
| 3 | **be** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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A evil king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:431-pg22373-part23:t11:o1:1
# text = A evil king
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A wizard lord

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:431-pg22373-part23:t11:o2:1
# text = A wizard lord
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wizard	wizard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lord	lord	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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Cruel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:431-pg22373-part23:t11:o3:1
# text = Cruel
1	Cruel	cruel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Not mortal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:431-pg22373-part23:t11:o4:1
# text = Not mortal
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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