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title: real talk, what's Ivan's job at the end? — Russian Fairy Tales, Prince Ivan and K… · tree and pragmatics
description: real talk, what's Ivan's job at the end? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 463 «Russian Fairy Tales, Prince Ivan and Katoma, part 55: the Princess ties Prince Ivan to her carriage and Katoma is left on a stump» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Test 10 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Prince Ivan and Katoma, part 55: the…

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real talk, what's Ivan's job at the end?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** real talk · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** job, end

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 463 «Russian Fairy Tales, Prince Ivan and Katoma, part 55: the Princess ties Prince Ivan to her carriage and Katoma is left on a stump» 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/463-pg22373-part55/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:463-pg22373-part55:t10:1
# text = real talk, what's Ivan's job at the end?
1	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | real talk | Ivan's job |  |  | at the end |  | 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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Tending sheep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:463-pg22373-part55:t10:o1:1
# text = Tending sheep
1	Tending	tend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tend** | gerund |  | sheep |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme |

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

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Herding cows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:463-pg22373-part55:t10:o2:1
# text = Herding cows
1	Herding	herd	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **herd** | gerund |  | cows |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cow=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Herding

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:463-pg22373-part55:t10:o3:1
# text = Herding
1	Herding	herding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cooking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:463-pg22373-part55:t10:o4:1
# text = Cooking
1	Cooking	cooking	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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