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title: lol the stepsisters just sat there with hands folded? — Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Fair… · tree and pragmatics
description: lol the stepsisters just sat there with hands folded? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 441 «Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Fair, part 33: a dying mother leaves a doll, and a stepmother makes Vasilissa work» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Fair, part 33: a dying m…

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lol the stepsisters just sat there with hands folded?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** stepsisters · **What happens:** sit, fold · **To what, where:** hands

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 441 «Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Fair, part 33: a dying mother leaves a doll, and a stepmother makes Vasilissa work» 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/441-pg22373-part33/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:441-pg22373-part33:t5:1
# text = lol the stepsisters just sat there with hands folded?
1	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stepsisters	stepsister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	folded	fold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the stepsisters |  |  | there |  | with hands | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fold** | participle |  | hands *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, like fine ladies, no cap, they just sat there doing nothing all day

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:441-pg22373-part33:t5:o1:1
# text = yeah, like fine ladies, no cap, they just sat there doing nothing all day
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
14	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	14	obj	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | fine ladies  no cap |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | fine ladies  no cap *not said here* | nothing |  |  | day |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, like princesses, for real

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:441-pg22373-part33:t5:o2:1
# text = yeah, like princesses, for real
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, like fine ladies, no cap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:441-pg22373-part33:t5:o3:1
# text = yeah, like fine ladies, no cap
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, like queens, no cap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:441-pg22373-part33:t5:o4:1
# text = yeah, like queens, no cap
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

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