--- title: so like, what did the skull do to the stepmom's crew? — Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Beau… · tree and pragmatics description: so like, what did the skull do to the stepmom's crew? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 443 «Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Beautiful: the skull burns the stepmother, and Vasilissa becomes the king's wife» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/443-pg22373-part35/t1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Beau…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/443-pg22373-part35/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Beautiful: the skull bur… so like, what did the skull do to the stepmom's crew? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** skull · **What happens:** do This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 443 «Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Beautiful: the skull burns the stepmother, and Vasilissa becomes the king's wife» 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/443-pg22373-part35/#t1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:443-pg22373-part35:t1:1 # text = so like, what did the skull do to the stepmom's crew? 1 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 2 like like INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 obj _ _ 5 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 skull skull NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 stepmom stepmom NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 crew crew NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past · do-support | the skull | | | | | to the stepmom's crew | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | 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} froze them ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:443-pg22373-part35:t1:o1:1 # text = froze them 1 froze froze VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **froze** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} turned them into stone ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:443-pg22373-part35:t1:o2:1 # text = turned them into stone 1 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 into into ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | past | | them *= they* | | stone | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme into stone=Trajectory | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} burnt them all to cinders ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:443-pg22373-part35:t1:o3:1 # text = burnt them all to cinders 1 burnt burnt VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 nmod:unmarked _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 cinders cinder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **burnt** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* | | | | to cinders | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} burnt them ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:443-pg22373-part35:t1:o4:1 # text = burnt them 1 burnt burnt VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **burnt** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* | | | | | tree rules | **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. 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