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title: Mate, how many seas did the Eagle chuck him in? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Water King and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, how many seas did the Eagle chuck him in? Test 6 · ★ 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 questio
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# Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise,…

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Mate, how many seas did the Eagle chuck him in?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate, Eagle · **What happens:** do, chuck · **To what, where:** him

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:435-pg22373-part27:t6:1
# text = Mate, how many seas did the Eagle chuck him in?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	chuck	chuck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Mate and many seas |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **chuck** | present | the Eagle | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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three seas, bare mad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:435-pg22373-part27:t6:o1:1
# text = three seas, bare mad
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
three lakes, dead scary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:435-pg22373-part27:t6:o2:1
# text = three lakes, dead scary
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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two seas, yeah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:435-pg22373-part27:t6:o3:1
# text = two seas, yeah
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
three seas, proper scary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:435-pg22373-part27:t6:o4:1
# text = three seas, proper scary
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
```

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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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