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title: Did the daughter reckon her life down there was rubbish? — Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the daughter reckon her life down there was rubbish? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 434 «Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl promises to marry a snake, and her mother kills him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 12 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl promises to marry a…

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Did the daughter reckon her life down there was rubbish?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** daughter, rubbish · **What happens:** reckon, be · **To what, where:** life

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 434 «Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl promises to marry a snake, and her mother kills him» 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/434-pg22373-part26/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:434-pg22373-part26:t12:1
# text = Did the daughter reckon her life down there was rubbish?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | past · do-support | the daughter | daughter's life |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent life=Attribute |
| 2 | **be** | past | rubbish |  |  | there |  | down *property* | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Nah, way better than Mum's here

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:434-pg22373-part26:t12:o1:1
# text = Nah, way better than Mum's here
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, just as bad, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:434-pg22373-part26:t12:o2:1
# text = Nah, just as bad, mate
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yeah, worse than home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:434-pg22373-part26:t12:o3:1
# text = Yeah, worse than home
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, same as here

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:434-pg22373-part26:t12:o4:1
# text = Nah, same as here
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
```

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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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