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title: Ugh, what does Friday punish with those whitlows? — Russian Folk-Tales, Mother Friday, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ugh, what does Friday punish with those whitlows? Test 8 · ★ 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 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Mother Friday, part 45: Ivan tricks th…

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Ugh, what does Friday punish with those whitlows?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Friday · **What happens:** punish

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:453-pg22373-part45:t8:1
# text = Ugh, what does Friday punish with those whitlows?
1	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	punish	punish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	whitlows	whitlow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **punish** | present · do-support | Friday |  |  |  |  | with that whitlows | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Patient with whitlow=Theme |

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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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Baking bread on Thursday night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:453-pg22373-part45:t8:o1:1
# text = Baking bread on Thursday night
1	Baking	bake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bake** | gerund |  | bread |  |  | night |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Product |

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

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Sewing and spinning on Friday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:453-pg22373-part45:t8:o2:1
# text = Sewing and spinning on Friday
1	Sewing	sew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sew** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **spin** | gerund |  |  |  |  | friday |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sweeping and washing on Friday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:453-pg22373-part45:t8:o3:1
# text = Sweeping and washing on Friday
1	Sweeping	sweep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wash** | gerund |  |  |  |  | friday |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Lazy sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:453-pg22373-part45:t8:o4:1
# text = Lazy sleep
1	Lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	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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