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title: What is the precise age-related description given to the Leshy's hair? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest's Daugh… · tree and pragmatics
description: What is the precise age-related description given to the Leshy's hair? Exam question 2 of lesson 455 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest's Daughter and the Leshy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was r
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# Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest's Daughter and the Leshy

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
What is the precise age-related description given to the Leshy's hair?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, give · **To what, where:** precise related description, hair

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 455 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest's Daughter and the Leshy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/455-pg22373-part47/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:455-pg22373-part47:e2:1
# text = What is the precise age-related description given to the Leshy's hair?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	precise	precise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Leshy	Leshy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the precise related description |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | participle |  | the precise related description *not said here* | the Leshy's hair |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to hair=Recipient |

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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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Grey, like old ash

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:455-pg22373-part47:e2:o1:1
# text = Grey, like old ash
1	Grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ash	ash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Grey, as a badger's, long and tangled down his back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:455-pg22373-part47:e2:o2:1
# text = Grey, as a badger's, long and tangled down his back
1	Grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	tangled	tangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tangle down** | participle |  | badger's back |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Grey, as a badger's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:455-pg22373-part47:e2:o3:1
# text = Grey, as a badger's
1	Grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Silver-white and thin, like the frost on an old birch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:455-pg22373-part47:e2:o4:1
# text = Silver-white and thin, like the frost on an old birch
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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

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