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title: Okay but who were the Zluidni, like seriously? — Russian Folk-Tales, Mother Friday, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: Okay but who were the Zluidni, like seriously? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 453 «Russian Folk-Tales, Mother Friday, part 45: Ivan tricks the Zluidni into the river, and Friday punishes a spinner» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Mother Friday, part 45: Ivan tricks th…

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Okay but who were the Zluidni, like seriously?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Zluidni

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 453 «Russian Folk-Tales, Mother Friday, part 45: Ivan tricks the Zluidni into the river, and Friday punishes a spinner» 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/453-pg22373-part45/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:453-pg22373-part45:t2:1
# text = Okay but who were the Zluidni, like seriously?
1	Okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Zluidni	Zluidni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the Zluidni |  |  |  |  | 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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Demons who stole Ivan's gold coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:453-pg22373-part45:t2:o1:1
# text = Demons who stole Ivan's gold coins
1	Demons	demon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | past | Demons | Ivan's gold coins |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location coin=Theme |
| 2 | **coin** |  | Ivan |  |  |  |  |  | nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Wicked spirits who lived in the forest mill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:453-pg22373-part45:t2:o2:1
# text = Wicked spirits who lived in the forest mill
1	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Wicked spirits |  |  | the forest mill |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mill=Location |

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

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Ivan's helpers from before

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:453-pg22373-part45:t2:o3:1
# text = Ivan's helpers from before
1	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	helpers	helper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	before	before	ADV	RB	_	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ivan's former neighbours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:453-pg22373-part45:t2:o4:1
# text = Ivan's former neighbours
1	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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