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title: So the hunter kept leaving marks on the trees, yeah? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest's Daugh… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the hunter kept leaving marks on the trees, yeah? Test 5 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest's Daughter and the Leshy

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
So the hunter kept leaving marks on the trees, yeah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hunter · **What happens:** keep, leave · **To what, where:** marks, trees

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 455 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest's Daughter and the Leshy» 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/455-pg22373-part47/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:455-pg22373-part47:t5:1
# text = So the hunter kept leaving marks on the trees, yeah?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | the hunter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | the hunter *not said here* | marks |  | the trees |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mark=Theme on tree=Location |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, he was actually leaving marks so the dog could follow him home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:455-pg22373-part47:t5:o1:1
# text = Nah, he was actually leaving marks so the dog could follow him home
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	home	home	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · progressive | he | marks |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | could | the dog | him *= he* |  |  |  | home *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he was like tracking his way out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:455-pg22373-part47:t5:o2:1
# text = Yeah, he was like tracking his way out
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	tracking	track	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **track out** | past · progressive | he | his way |  |  |  | out *property* | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he was like leaving a trail so he could find the way out later

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:455-pg22373-part47:t5:o3:1
# text = Yeah, he was like leaving a trail so he could find the way out later
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	out	out	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · progressive | he | a trail |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme |
| 2 | **find out** | could | he | the way |  |  |  | late, out *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, he was just bored and whittling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:455-pg22373-part47:t5:o4:1
# text = Nah, he was just bored and whittling
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	whittling	whittle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | bored *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **whittle** | gerund | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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