--- title: lol, what did the stepmom think the skull would do? — Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Beau… · tree and pragmatics description: lol, what did the stepmom think the skull would do? Test 13 · ★ 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 and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/443-pg22373-part35/t13/) [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/) / t13 # Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Beautiful: the skull bur… lol, what did the stepmom think the skull would do? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** stepmom, skull · **What happens:** think, do · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 13 · ★ 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/#t13). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:443-pg22373-part35:t13:1 # text = lol, what did the stepmom think the skull would do? 1 lol lol INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 stepmom stepmom NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 skull skull NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | the stepmom | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme | | 2 | **do** | would | the skull | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} keep the skull's light in and warm the whole room ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:443-pg22373-part35:t13:o1:1 # text = keep the skull's light in and warm the whole room 1 keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 skull skull NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 warm warm VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep in** | imperative | you *not said here* | the skull's light | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme | | 2 | **warm** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the whole room | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent room=Patient | | 3 | **light** | | the skull | | | | | | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} keep the light in ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:443-pg22373-part35:t13:o2:1 # text = keep the light in 1 keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 1 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep in** | imperative | you *not said here* | the light | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} fetch more wood ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:443-pg22373-part35:t13:o3:1 # text = fetch more wood 1 fetch fetch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 amod _ _ 3 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fetch** | imperative | you *not said here* | more wood | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} think the skull would keep the light in and bring her luck ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:443-pg22373-part35:t13:o4:1 # text = think the skull would keep the light in and bring her luck 1 think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 skull skull NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 ccomp _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 bring bring VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **keep in** | would | the skull | the light | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme | | 3 | **bring** | infinitive | you *not said here* | skull's luck | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme | **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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