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title: bro, why'd Ivashko say he's still foolish? — Russian Folk-Tales, Ivashko, part 36:… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, why'd Ivashko say he's still foolish? Test 2 · ★ 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 o
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# Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Ivashko, part 36: the witch tricks Iva…

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bro, why'd Ivashko say he's still foolish?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ivashko · **What happens:** say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:444-pg22373-part36:t2:1
# text = bro, why'd Ivashko say he's still foolish?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	Ivashko	Ivashko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl:relcl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ivashko |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Ivashko |  |  |  | still | foolish *property* | tree rules |

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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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to scare the witch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:444-pg22373-part36:t2:o1:1
# text = to scare the witch
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	scare	scare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scare** | to-infinitive |  | the witch |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus witch=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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to test her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:444-pg22373-part36:t2:o2:1
# text = to test her
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	test	test	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **test** | to-infinitive |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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to trick Alenka

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:444-pg22373-part36:t2:o3:1
# text = to trick Alenka
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	trick	trick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Alenka	Alenka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick** | to-infinitive |  | Alenka |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alenka=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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to fool her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:444-pg22373-part36:t2:o4:1
# text = to fool her
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	fool	fool	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fool** | to-infinitive |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «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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