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title: Yo, what got the old women young again? — Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what got the old women young again? Test 8 · ★ 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; 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and the Witch-Snake: Princ…

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Yo, what got the old women young again?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** get · **To what, where:** old women

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:446-pg22373-part38:t8:1
# text = Yo, what got the old women young again?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past |  | the old women |  |  | again | young *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus |

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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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Drinking the water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:446-pg22373-part38:t8:o1:1
# text = Drinking the water
1	Drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | gerund |  | the water |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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A golden spoon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:446-pg22373-part38:t8:o2:1
# text = A golden spoon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spoon	spoon	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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Apples

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:446-pg22373-part38:t8:o3:1
# text = Apples
1	Apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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Eating an apple

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:446-pg22373-part38:t8:o4:1
# text = Eating an apple
1	Eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund |  | a apple |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=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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