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title: what did she threaten to do if vasilissa didnt work, lol — Russian Fairy Tales, Vasilissa the Bea… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did she threaten to do if vasilissa didnt work, lol Test 9 · ★ 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 pragmati
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# Test 9 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Vasilissa the Beautiful, part 34: Vas…

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what did she threaten to do if vasilissa didnt work, lol

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** threaten, do

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:442-pg22373-part34:t9:1
# text = what did she threaten to do if vasilissa didnt work, lol
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	threaten	threaten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	vasilissa	vasilissa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	didnt	didnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **threaten** | past · do-support | she |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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}

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sell her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:442-pg22373-part34:t9:o1:1
# text = sell her
1	sell	sell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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lock her up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:442-pg22373-part34:t9:o2:1
# text = lock her up
1	lock	lock	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lock up** | imperative | you *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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feed her to the wolves out in the woods tonight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:442-pg22373-part34:t9:o3:1
# text = feed her to the wolves out in the woods tonight
1	feed	feed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
10	tonight	tonight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed out** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | her *= she* | the woods | tonight | to the wolves | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to wolf=Recipient |

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

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eat her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:442-pg22373-part34:t9:o4:1
# text = eat her
1	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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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