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title: Dead cool, what's a spasibo, then? — Russian Folk-Tales, Woe the Woeful, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead cool, what's a spasibo, then? Test 7 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 7 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Woe the Woeful, part 44: the rich brot…

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Dead cool, what's a spasibo, then?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** spasibo

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:452-pg22373-part44:t7:1
# text = Dead cool, what's a spasibo, then?
1	Dead	dead	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	spasibo	spasibo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a spasibo |  |  |  |  | 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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Some Russian bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:452-pg22373-part44:t7:o1:1
# text = Some Russian bread
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A thank you, what you say for a present

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:452-pg22373-part44:t7:o2:1
# text = A thank you, what you say for a present
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thank	thank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | a thank |  |  |  | for a present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A kind of cake, what you eat at Christmas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:452-pg22373-part44:t7:o3:1
# text = A kind of cake, what you eat at Christmas
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | you | a kind of cake |  | Christmas |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A sort of coin, what you pay with

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:452-pg22373-part44:t7:o4:1
# text = A sort of coin, what you pay with
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	pay	pay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sort** |  |  | coin |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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