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title: Who cautioned Prince Ivan of his sister's intent during the lute per… — Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who cautioned Prince Ivan of his sister's intent during the lute performance? Exam question 3 of lesson 446 «Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and the Witch-Snake: Prince Ivan escapes his sister and is weighed against her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and the Witch-Snake: Princ…

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Who cautioned Prince Ivan of his sister's intent during the lute performance?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sister · **What happens:** caution, intend · **To what, where:** Prince Ivan

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 446 «Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and the Witch-Snake: Prince Ivan escapes his sister and is weighed against her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/446-pg22373-part38/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:446-pg22373-part38:e3:1
# text = Who cautioned Prince Ivan of his sister's intent during the lute performance?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cautioned	caution	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	intent	intent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	during	during	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	lute	lute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **caution** *speech: other* | past |  |  | Prince Ivan of Ivan's sister's intent |  | during the lute performance |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ivan=Recipient |
| 2 | **intend** |  | Ivan's sister |  |  |  |  |  | nom intent «cognition transitive»: poss=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 {#o1}

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Witch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:446-pg22373-part38:e3:o1:1
# text = Witch
1	Witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ivan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:446-pg22373-part38:e3:o2:1
# text = Ivan
1	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The old wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:446-pg22373-part38:e3:o3:1
# text = The old wind
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wind	wind	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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The mouse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:446-pg22373-part38:e3:o4:1
# text = The mouse
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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