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title: Dude, who piled the oaks in the road? — Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, who piled the oaks in the road? Test 6 · ★ 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; Mo
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# Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and the Witch-Snake: Princ…

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Dude, who piled the oaks in the road?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** pile · **To what, where:** Dude, road

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:446-pg22373-part38:t6:1
# text = Dude, who piled the oaks in the road?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	piled	pile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	oaks	oak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pile** | past |  | Dude |  | the road |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent oak=Theme in road=Destination |

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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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The giant who pulled up the trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:446-pg22373-part38:t6:o1:1
# text = The giant who pulled up the trees
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull up** | past | the giant | the trees |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Mouse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:446-pg22373-part38:t6:o2:1
# text = Mouse
1	Mouse	mouse	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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The Sun's Sister

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:446-pg22373-part38:t6:o3:1
# text = The Sun's Sister
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Sister	Sister	PROPN	NNP	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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Vertodub

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:446-pg22373-part38:t6:o4:1
# text = Vertodub
1	Vertodub	Vertodub	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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