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title: Wait, the comb made a forest? That's sick — Russian Folk-Tales, The Baba Yaga, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, the comb made a forest? That's sick Test 3 · ★ of lesson 440 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Baba Yaga, the girl escapes with a towel and a comb» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Baba Yaga, the girl escapes with a…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Wait, the comb made a forest? That's sick

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, comb, That · **What happens:** wait, make, be · **To what, where:** forest

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 440 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Baba Yaga, the girl escapes with a towel and a comb» 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/440-pg22373-part32/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Wait, the comb made a forest?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:440-pg22373-part32:t3:1
# text = Wait, the comb made a forest?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	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 | **make** | past | the comb | a forest |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material forest=Product |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* That's sick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:440-pg22373-part32:t3:2
# text = That's sick
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | That |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, an awfully thick one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:440-pg22373-part32:t3:o1:1
# text = Yeah, an awfully thick one
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	awfully	awfully	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Kinda, just trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:440-pg22373-part32:t3:o2:1
# text = Kinda, just trees
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, a really dense one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:440-pg22373-part32:t3:o3:1
# text = Yeah, a really dense one
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yep, a super dense one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:440-pg22373-part32:t3:o4:1
# text = Yep, a super dense one
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	super	super	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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