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title: proper question: the witch calls with what? — Russian Folk-Tales, Ivashko, part 36:… · tree and pragmatics
description: proper question: the witch calls with what? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 444 «Russian Folk-Tales, Ivashko, part 36: the witch tricks Ivashko's voice, but he tricks Alenka and escapes up an oak» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Ivashko, part 36: the witch tricks Iva…

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proper question: the witch calls with what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** proper question · **What happens:** call · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 444 «Russian Folk-Tales, Ivashko, part 36: the witch tricks Ivashko's voice, but he tricks Alenka and escapes up an oak» 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/444-pg22373-part36/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:444-pg22373-part36:t10:1
# text = proper question: the witch calls with what?
1	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | proper question |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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a voice like his dad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:444-pg22373-part36:t10:o1:1
# text = a voice like his dad
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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his mum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:444-pg22373-part36:t10:o2:1
# text = his mum
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mum	mum	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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a voice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:444-pg22373-part36:t10:o3:1
# text = a voice
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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a voice like his mum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:444-pg22373-part36:t10:o4:1
# text = a voice like his mum
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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