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title: ngl, how'd the blind dude find his dinner? — Russian Folk-Tales, Katoma, part 56: t… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl, how'd the blind dude find his dinner? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 464 «Russian Folk-Tales, Katoma, part 56: the heroes trap the Baba Yaga and are healed» 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 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Katoma, part 56: the heroes trap the B…

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ngl, how'd the blind dude find his dinner?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** blind dude · **What happens:** find · **To what, where:** dinner

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 464 «Russian Folk-Tales, Katoma, part 56: the heroes trap the Baba Yaga and are healed» 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/464-pg22373-part56/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:464-pg22373-part56:t1:1
# text = ngl, how'd the blind dude find his dinner?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | would | the blind dude | dude's dinner |  |  |  | ngl *vocative* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Topic |

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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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by waiting for runners to fall into his traps at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:464-pg22373-part56:t1:o1:1
# text = by waiting for runners to fall into his traps at night
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	runners	runner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	traps	trap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for runners | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | night | into his traps *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into trap=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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by trapping wild birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:464-pg22373-part56:t1:o2:1
# text = by trapping wild birds
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	trapping	trap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trap** | gerund |  | wild birds |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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by tracking tiny rabbits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:464-pg22373-part56:t1:o3:1
# text = by tracking tiny rabbits
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	tracking	track	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **track** | gerund |  | tiny rabbits |  |  |  |  | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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by sniffing out runners

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:464-pg22373-part56:t1:o4:1
# text = by sniffing out runners
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sniffing	sniff	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	runners	runner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sniff out** | gerund |  | runners |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent runner=Theme |

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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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