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title: did the white dude on the white horse come first or nah — Russian Fairy Tales, Vasilissa the Bea… · tree and pragmatics
description: did the white dude on the white horse come first or nah Test 4 · ★ of lesson 442 «Russian Fairy Tales, Vasilissa the Beautiful, part 34: Vasilissa goes to Baba Yaga's for a light and gets through an impossible task» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Test 4 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Vasilissa the Beautiful, part 34: Vas…

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did the white dude on the white horse come first or nah

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do, come · **To what, where:** white dude

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 442 «Russian Fairy Tales, Vasilissa the Beautiful, part 34: Vasilissa goes to Baba Yaga's for a light and gets through an impossible task» 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/442-pg22373-part34/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:442-pg22373-part34:t4:1
# text = did the white dude on the white horse come first or nah
1	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the white dude |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dude=Eventuality |
| 2 | **come** | present |  |  |  |  |  | on the white horse; first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horse=Location |

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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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yes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:442-pg22373-part34:t4:o1:1
# text = yes
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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no, the red one did

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:442-pg22373-part34:t4:o2:1
# text = no, the red one did
1	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | the red one |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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yep, he came first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:442-pg22373-part34:t4:o3:1
# text = yep, he came first
1	yep	yep	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | he |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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nah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:442-pg22373-part34:t4:o4:1
# text = nah
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	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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