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title: what did baba yaga sniff out, like what she smelled — Russian Fairy Tales, Vasilissa the Bea… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did baba yaga sniff out, like what she smelled Test 8 · ★ 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 pragmatics of
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# Test 8 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Vasilissa the Beautiful, part 34: Vas…

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what did baba yaga sniff out, like what she smelled

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** baba yaga, yaga · **What happens:** sniff out, smell

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:442-pg22373-part34:t8:1
# text = what did baba yaga sniff out, like what she smelled
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	baba	baba	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	compound	_	_
4	yaga	yaga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sniff	sniff	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	obl	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	smelled	smell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sniff out** | past · do-support | baba yaga |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 2 | **smell** | past | yaga |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=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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blood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:442-pg22373-part34:t8:o1:1
# text = blood
1	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Russian flesh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:442-pg22373-part34:t8:o2:1
# text = Russian flesh
1	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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smoke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:442-pg22373-part34:t8:o3:1
# text = smoke
1	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Russian bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:442-pg22373-part34:t8:o4:1
# text = Russian bread
1	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bread	bread	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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