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title: Wait, so her boy became what bird, yeah? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Water King and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, so her boy became what bird, yeah? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 435 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise, part 27: a wife's curse on her children, then a King and an Eagle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise,…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Wait, so her boy became what bird, yeah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, boy · **What happens:** wait, become

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 435 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise, part 27: a wife's curse on her children, then a King and an Eagle» 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/435-pg22373-part27/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:435-pg22373-part27:t3:1
# text = Wait, so her boy became what bird, yeah?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	xcomp	_	_
8	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | her boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a nightingale, like proper singing, sick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:435-pg22373-part27:t3:o1:1
# text = a nightingale, like proper singing, sick
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a nightingale, that's mad, sick tbh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:435-pg22373-part27:t3:o2:1
# text = a nightingale, that's mad, sick tbh
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	tbh	tbh	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a nightingale |  |  |  |  | mad, tbh *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | a nightingale *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a nightingale, sick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:435-pg22373-part27:t3:o3:1
# text = a nightingale, sick
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a goldfinch, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:435-pg22373-part27:t3:o4:1
# text = a goldfinch, innit
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goldfinch	goldfinch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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