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title: Sick, which bit of the Viatka tale is the real plot twist? — Russian Folk-Tales, Woe the Woeful, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sick, which bit of the Viatka tale is the real plot twist? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 452 «Russian Folk-Tales, Woe the Woeful, part 44: the rich brother drowns Woe, then Need, Kruchina and the Zluidni turn up in other tales» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm
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# Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Woe the Woeful, part 44: the rich brot…

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Sick, which bit of the Viatka tale is the real plot twist?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Sick · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** real plot twist

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 452 «Russian Folk-Tales, Woe the Woeful, part 44: the rich brother drowns Woe, then Need, Kruchina and the Zluidni turn up in other tales» 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/452-pg22373-part44/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:452-pg22373-part44:t13:1
# text = Sick, which bit of the Viatka tale is the real plot twist?
1	Sick	sick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Viatka	Viatka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	plot	plot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	twist	twist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Sick and which bit of the Viatka tale | the real plot twist |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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He finds gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:452-pg22373-part44:t13:o1:1
# text = He finds gold
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | He | gold |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Need steals the gold away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:452-pg22373-part44:t13:o2:1
# text = Need steals the gold away
1	Need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	steals	steal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal away** | present | Need | the gold |  |  |  | away *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gold=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:452-pg22373-part44:t13:o3:1
# text = The horse
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	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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Need tells him where the gold is

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:452-pg22373-part44:t13:o4:1
# text = Need tells him where the gold is
1	Need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	2	ccomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Need |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | the gold |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |

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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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