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title: Lol, how'd the comb work? — Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, how'd the comb work? Test 4 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and the Witch-Snake: Princ…

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Lol, how'd the comb work?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗

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This is test 4 · ★ 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. 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:446-pg22373-part38:t4:1
# text = Lol, how'd the comb work?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Dense oak forests shot up all over the field right away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:446-pg22373-part38:t4:o1:1
# text = Dense oak forests shot up all over the field right away
1	Dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	right	right	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot up** | past | Dense oak forests |  |  | the field |  | away *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Thick grass sprouted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:446-pg22373-part38:t4:o2:1
# text = Thick grass sprouted
1	Thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	sprouted	sprout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sprout** | participle |  | Thick grass *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Oak forests shot up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:446-pg22373-part38:t4:o3:1
# text = Oak forests shot up
1	Oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shot	shot	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shot up** | present | Oak forests |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Pine groves grew

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:446-pg22373-part38:t4:o4:1
# text = Pine groves grew
1	Pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	groves	grove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Pine groves |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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